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The Bible and Western culture
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The Bible and Western culture [sound recording] / Michael Sugrue ... [et al.].
Published
Springfield, VA : Teaching Co., c2001.
Physical Description
24 sound discs : digital + 3 course guides (22 cm.)
Notes
Compact discs.
In 3 containers (23 cm.).
Summary
24 lectures on the historical origins of the Hebrew Bible, Christtian thought and Biblical themes in Western literature, and main elements of the development of Western religious thought.
Format
Audio
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 22, 2004
Series
The great courses on tape
Performers
Michael Sugrue, with guest lectures by Andrew Ford, David Thurn, and Robert Hollander.
Contents
Lecture 1. The Gilgamesh epic
lecture 2. Genesis : introduction to biblical study
lecture 3. Exodus : toward the law
lecture 4. Job and the problem of evil
lecture 5. Isaiah : swords in plowshares
lecture 6. Matthew : the new law
lecture 7. Luke and Acts : from Jerusalem to Rome
lecture 8. John : the unbroken net of scripture
lecture 9. The Pauline tradition
lecture 10. Revelation and the eschaton
lecture 11. Augustine and the Christian self
lecture 12. Meister Eckhart : from whom God hid nothing
lecture 13. Justice and poetry : Dante's book of the dead
lecture 14. Ugolino : Dante's last sympathetic sinner
lecture 15. Cantos I and II of Purgatorio : typology and poetry
lecture 16. Utopia : between Heaven and Earth
lecture 17. Luther and the reformation
lecture 18. Shakespeare : Measure for measure
lecture 19. Milton : Paradise lost
lecture 20. Hume, Swift, and the collapse of deism
lecture 21. Kierkegaard's leap of faith
lecture 22. Dostoyevsky's The idiot and the Book of revelation
lecture 23. Nietzche and the death of God
lecture 24. Joyce : from religion to art.
Issue number
637 Teaching Company
634 Teaching Company (part 1)
635 Teaching Company )part 2)
636 Teaching Company (part 3)
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