The Great Courses: The History and Archaeology of the Bible

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Adults
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The library’s digital content includes The Great Courses, a video-on-demand service for lifelong learners. Each month we’ll meet 4 times to sample a portion of one of the many courses offered available in our Great Courses collection.

Meetings will consist of a 30 minute video lecture, followed by a discussion. In May we’ll cover the 1st four lectures from The History and Archaeology of the Bible , presented by Professor Jean-Pierre Isbouts.

This course offers an in-depth overview of the most important archaeological discoveries related to stories in the Bible, from Genesis to the Gospels. It is deliberately presented from a nondenominational perspective and is accessible to everyone. It does not conform to any particular theological orientation but treats the biblical texts as historical documents and treats every biblical story as a valued conveyor of meaning, regardless of its putative historicity.

Lecture 2 The Tower of Babel                                                    

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