Origins of Judaism and Christianity
10 videos • 55,671 views • by Centre Place A series of lectures that cover the emergence of Israel as an identity from the Late Bronze Age up to the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah, as well as lectures that will introduce the Bible from the perspective of modern scholars. We will cover: - The Documentary Hypothesis - The mythology of Genesis - The Canaanites - Paganism in Iron Age Israel: El, Baal, Asherah, Astarte - The origins of Yahweh - The emergence of Israel as an identity - Ugarit, Ebla, Mari, and other lost civilizations of the Levant - Akhenaten and Egyptian proto-monotheism