Students, here is a link to the syllabus for Early Western Civilization HIS 1103-B. See you in a few weeks.
Early Western Civilization HIS1103 – revised schedule
Students, I have posted below a revised schedule for Early Western Civiliation – HIS1103 that takes into consideration the days we did not meet due to the weather.
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Tentative Schedule – (revised 2/17/2011)
| HIS 1103-A | Topic | Assignment Due Today |
| January 14 | Introduction to Course | Please print out and bring your syllabus to this class session. |
| January 19 | What Is History and Why Should It Be Important to Christians? | Read: Harrison, chapter 1
Turn In: In the style of a David Letterman’s Top 10 List, “Reasons Why Christians should be interested in history?” |
| January 21 | Pre-history & Genesis 1-11 | Read: Genesis 1-11; Bauer, Preface; The Everlasting Man – Chapter 2 (available on Blackboard) |
| January 26 | Sumer & Akkad | Read: Bauer, chapters 1, 2, 3, 8, 10
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| January 28 | Egypt | Read: Bauer chapter 4, 7, 9, 11
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| February 2, 4, 9 | Campus Closed – Weather | Campus Closed – Weather |
| February 11 | The Patriarchal Period
Hyksos, Hammurabi, Moses & The Nation of Israel Western Semitic Power Grabs / David, Solomon, & Rehoboam (The United and Divided Kingdom) |
Read: Harrison, chapter 3
Read: Bauer chapters 23, 27, 32; Harrison, pages 119-127, 144-150 Read: Bauer chapters 34, 39, 45, Recommended: Harrison, chapter 7
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| February 16 | Assyria, Babylon, the Medes & The Persians | Read: Bauer pp. 371-390, 410-417, 443-468, Old Testament book of Daniel |
| February 18 | Review for Exam #1
The Old Testament Book of Daniel |
Read: The Old Testament Book of Daniel |
| February 18-23 | Examination #1
Take this exam online sometime after the Feb. 18 class and before the Feb. 23 class |
Examination #1 – On Blackboard
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| February 23 | “Meanwhile in Greece…”
Greek Mythology & Religion |
Read: Bauer pp. 183-190, 224-228, 253-257, 281-284
Recommended: Hellenistic-Roman Religions, by Everett Ferguson (available on Blackboard)
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| February 25 | The Persian Wars
History Channel Video: The 300 |
Read: Bauer pp. 514-534 |
| March 2 | History Channel Video: The 300 (pt. 2) – Birth of Democracy | Read: Bauer pp. 350-352, 354-358, 418-430 |
| March 4 | The Peloponnesian Wars & Alexander the Great | Read: Bauer pp. 539-554; 570-582; 591-607 |
| March 9 | Pre-Socratic Philosophy | Recommended:
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| March 11 | Socrates, Sophists, Plato | Recommended: The Sophists, Socrates and Plato, by A. H. Armstrong (available on Blackboard) |
| March 23 | Aristotle | Recommended: Plato and Aristotle, by Donald Palmer (available on Blackboard) |
| March 25 | Hellenistic & Early Roman Philosophy | Recommended: Stoics, Cynics, Epicureans, and Sceptics, by A. H. Armstrong (available on Blackboard) |
| March 30 | Examination #2 | Examination #2 – On Blackboard |
| April 1 | Romulus to Hannibal
Drive-Thru History – Rome Episode 1 |
Read: Bauer pp. 358-360, 431-436, 469-480, 555-561, 584-590, 607, 625-627, 629-641 |
| April 6 | Roman Prosperity
Drive-Thru History – Rome Episode 2 |
Read: Bauer pp. 644-647, 659-673, 676-678
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| April 8 | Roman Empire
Drive-Thru History – Rome Episode 3 |
Read: Bauer pp. 680-696, 697-711
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| April 13 | Six Flags Over Israel | Read: Harrison pages 299-333
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| April 15 | Roman Provinces & Israel During The Intertestamental Period | Read: Bauer pp. 717-734 |
| April 20 | War With Rome & The Destruction of the Temple | Turn In: A timeline combining the main events from the Hebrew Bible with the material from our textbooks. |
| April 22 | No Class | No Class |
| April 27 | Western Civilization & The Kingdom of God
(or) Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Art, Literature, etc. |
Read: Bauer pp. 735-744, 751-756, 759-777
Recommended:
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| April 29 – 1:00 | Final Examination | Final Examination In Class |
An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, by Bruce Waltke and M. O’Connor
William Barrick, Professor of Old Testament at The Master’s Theological Seminary, has given a very positive review of Waltke and O’Connor’s intermediate grammar An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax.
“An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (IBHS) provides the students of biblical Hebrew with the most up to date and scholarly grammar written in the English language. The authors make it clear that their volume does not replace other reference grammars. Their reasoning is both honest and accurate-IBHS is not exhaustive either in treating exceptions or even in covering all matters of syntax and grammar. This grammar, however, is so well written that we can only hope that Waltke and O’Connor will see fit to complete this magnificent offering in a second volume that would treat the remaining elements of Hebrew syntax with the same excellence manifested in this work.”
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