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I. Mesopotamian Documents
The Mother
Sings/The Son’s Reply
The Righteous Sufferer
Enheduanna,
from Hymn to Inanna
Shu-Sin’s
Ritual Bride, a Priestess of Inanna
Tiglathpileser I
The Laws of Hammurabi
Prayer to the Gods of the Night
Enuma Elish
II. Egyptian Documents
Instructions of Kagemni
Love Song: “Would You
Then Leave Me?” and “I Am Your Best Girl”
The
Pharaoh The Pharaoh Prays for Admittance to the
Sky (Utterance 573)
The Book of the Dead: Negative Confession
Hymn to the Aton
III. Hebrew Documents
Tanakh:
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Torah Genesis (chapters 1, 6,
7, 9, 12, 17, 22, 32)
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Torah: Exodus
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Nevi'im: Prophets: Judges/ Deborah
(chapter 4-5)
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Khetuvim: Writings: Psalms 104
(compare to Hymn to the Aton),
Proverbs 22 (compare to Instructions of Kagemni), Song of
Songs 1.1-4; 7.11-14; 8.1-7, 13-14 (compare to Mesopotamian
and Egyptian Love Songs)
Scriptures
Hebrews-Timeline
IV. Greek Documents
Sappho:
Richard Lattimore’s translations of Hymn to Aphrodite and two
other poems
The Fairest Thing on Earth (Sappho 16, stanza 1)
The Moon is Set
(fragment 52)
Plato:
From The Republic, Book V, Ideas of Women
V. Roman Documents
Roman Document Questions
Roman Political
Chart
Ovid (translated by A. S. Kline 2001)
VI. Christianity
Christian Document
Questions
Gnostic Gospels
Byzantium:
VII. Islam
Qur’an
Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam
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Egypt
Greece
Rome
Christianity
Islam
The British Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art - New York
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