Dr. Justin Singleton
Digging for the truth ... to set you free
HIST 262:
History of the Ancient
Near East
An introduction to the peoples, history, and culture of the ancient Near East from the earliest times through the Iron Age, specifically the regions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant. This course is organized using the Longue Durée approach to historiography and will therefore discuss geographical, social, and individual time.
Course Lectures
Week 1
Lecture 1: Introductory Material
Lecture 2: La Longue Durée
Lecture 3: Chronography: The Big Picture
Week 2
Lecture 4: Diving a Little Deeper into the Peoples and Cultures of the Stone Age
Lecture 5: The Sumerians
Lecture 6: The Akkadians
Week 3
Lecture 7: Early Egypt
Lecture 8: Old Kingdom Egypt
Lecture 9: The Northern Levant in the Early Bronze Age
Week 4
Lecture 10: The Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age
Lecture 11: Assyria in the Middle to Late Bronze Ages
Lecture 12: Babylonia in the Middle to Late Bronze Ages
Week 5
Lecture 13: First Intermediate and Middle Kingdom of Egypt
Lecture 14: Second Intermediate and New Kingdom of Egypt
Lecture 15: The Northern Levant in the Middle to Late Bronze Ages
Week 6
Lecture 16: The Southern Levant in the Middle to Late Bronze Ages
Lecture 17: Neo-Elamite and Neo-Assyrian of Mesopotamia
Lecture 18: Neo-Babylonian Empire of Mesopotamia
Week 7
Lecture 19: Third Intermediate and Late Period of Egypt
Lecture 20: The Phoenicians
Lecture 21: Israel in the Middle to Late Bronze Ages
Week 8
Lecture 22: Smaller Levantine Kingdoms in the Middle to Late Bronze Ages
Lecture 23: Abraham’s Call
Lecture 24: Hammurabi’s Law Codes and How They Relate to Moses
Week 9
Lecture 25: The Mesopotamian Job Story
Lecture 26: Religious Connections Between the Ancient East and West Fertile Crescent
Lecture 27: Syro-Levantines in Egypt and How That Relates to Joseph
Week 10
Lecture 28: A Weakened Egypt at the Time of the Exodus
Lecture 29: The Polemical Nature of the Creation Narrative
Lecture 30: The Nephilim of Genesis 6: Monsters or heroes?
Week 11
Lecture 31: Understanding Wisdom: Pure Yahwism v. Anti-Yahwism
Lecture 32: A Drunken Sailor and the Curse of Canaan
Lecture 33: Attempting to Discover Tarshish
Week 12
Lecture 34: The Ahabite Parenthesis
Want to take the course?
If you are interested in taking this course, please contact God's Bible School and College to register.
(513) 721-7944