C/A SYLLABUS FALL 2001

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INTRODUCTION:
PARADIGMS
AND
MYTHS

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1 8/29 Introduction: "It Came from Outer Space"
2 9/3 Cosmic Dancers and Flood Myths

  Davis 1997. 87-112
  O'Flaherty 1975. 180-4
  Birrell 1993. 81-3
  Beckwith 1993. 107-9
  Zolbrod 1984. 37-9
  Converse 1981. 31-45
 

3 9/5 History's Stage and Conflagration Myths

  Davis 1997. 113-131
  O'Flaherty 1975. 38-43, 138-41
  Birrell 1993. 77-9
  Bellamy 1936. 113-9
 

4 9/10 Recent Upheavals and Combat Myths

  Peiser 1998. 117-132
  Mullen 2000. 1-2
  Zolbrod 1984. 205-224
 

5 9/12 Myths and Comets

  Clube and Napier 1982. 157-223
  Pankenier 1998. 187-194
 

MESOPOTAMIAN

Marduk and Tiamat

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6 9/17 Enuma Elish

FDD 9-51   Foster 1995
 

7 9/19 Story of the Flood

FDD 52-77   Foster 1995
  Heinsohn 1990. 215-44
 

GREEK

Zeus battle

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8 9/24 Theogony 1-16, 61-102

  Clube & Napier 1990.Tables 8 & 9
 

9 9/26 Deucalion, Phaethon, Four Races of Men, The Trojan War

  Ovid 1955. 31-9, 49-59
  Evelyn-White 1950. 199-203, 97
  Homer 1951. 258-9, 404-6
 

10 10/1 Greco-Roman Natural Philosophy

  McKirahan 1994. 41-3, 64-6, 324-7
  Kahn 1979. 48-9, 157-9
  Plato 1937. 8-9, 452-5
  Lucretius 1967. 130-5, 137-139, 158-160, 176-178
 

8 10/3 Homo Schizo I Ch.3-4

QC   deGrazia 1983 [hs1_docs: pp. 68-147]
 

JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN

many headed serpent

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12 10/15 Genesis

  Alter 1996.26-41
  Dundes 1988.13-28
  Hendel 1987.13-26
 

13 10/17 Exodus 1: God's Fire Ch. 1-3

QC   deGrazia 1981a [gf_docs pp.9-84]
 

14 10/22 Exodus 2: God's Fire Ch. 4,5,8

QC   deGrazia 1981a [gf_docs pp. 91-151, 262-296]
 

15 10/24

  Dahood 1966. 174-5, 131-3, 198-9, 223-4, 234-8, 49-51
  JPS 352-3, 378-84, 402-4, 420-1, 792-7, 857-9
 

16 10/29 Revelation:Text

  Ford 1975.xxiii-xlviii
  Lawrence 1980.1-6
 

17 10/31 Revelation: Commentary

  Mounce 1977.1-9, 24-35, 149-53, 183-91, 225-39, 302-5, 360-75
 

MESOAMERICAN

Deluge Serpent

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18 11/5 Popol Vuh Parts One and Two

PV 21-35, 61-88   Tedlock 1996
 

19 11/7 Popol Vuh Part Three

PV 89-142, 35-43   Tedlock 1996
 

20 11/15 Popol Vuh Part Four

PV 143-198, 43-60   Tedlock 1996
  Peiser 1995.29-65
 

21 11/14 Legend of the Suns

  Bierhost 7-10, 142-159
 

22 11/19 Chilam Balam

  Roys 1967.182-7, 98-100, 147-163
  León-Portilla 1968.1-13
 

NORSE

slaying the serpent

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23 11/26 Gylfaginning

  Sturluson 1987. 1-58
 

24 11/28 Voluspa

  Hollander 1962.1-13
 

CONCLUSION:
RELIGION AND
THE DIVINE

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25 12/3 The Divine Succession Ch. 1-4

QC   deGrazia 1983 [ds1_docs pp. 5-61]
 

26 12/10 The Divine Succession Ch. 5-9

QC   deGrazia 1983 [ds1_docs pp. 62-125]
 

27 12/12 The Divine Succession Ch. 10-Conclusion

QC   deGrazia 1983 [ds1_docs pp. 126-196]
 


 
 

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