RELG 433 - Biblical Archaeology
Study Topics and Assignments
Module 6
The Holy Land, from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Bronze Ages
Module Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this module, you will be able to :
- Describe and discuss some of the archaeological findings relating to the Stone Ages in the Holy Land (CLO C)
- Describe and discuss some of the archaeological findings relating to the Bronze Ages in the Holy Land (CLO C)
- Describe and discuss some of the cultural settings of the Stone Ages in the Holy Land (CLO D)
- Describe and discuss some of the cultural settings of the Bronze Ages in the Holy Land (CLO D)
Textbook and Bible Readings
The Bible reading is quite long. It is not necessary to study it in depth, but do try to read through it (as if you were reading a newspaper or a book) to get the sequence of events and to fill in some of the things you did not learn in Sunday School.
- Textbook, chapter 4, "Patriarchal Palestine - Abraham and Lot"
- Textbook, chapter 5, "Patriarchal Palestine - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Esau"
- Bible, Genesis, chapters 11-33
Illustrations
Course Notes
- Go here for notes on the Stone Ages in Israel and Palestine
- Go here for notes of the Chalcolithic Period in Israel
- Go here for notes on the divisions of the Early Bronze Ages in Israel
- Go here for notes on the end of the Early Bronze Age in Canaan
- Go here for notes on the Mid Bronze Age in Canaan
- Go here for notes on Abraham and the Patriarchs
- Go here for the notes on Tel Dan
- Go here for the Story of Sinuhe
- Go here for a Time-line for Abraham and the Patriarchs
- Go here for a Map of Abraham's Journeys
- Go here for a Map of Canaan and the Patriarchs
InterNet Resources
- Go here for the page of links to InterNet Resources
Study Questions
Prepare an answer sheet for yourself, in which you make notes on these topics. Then you may use it, along with the textbook and the course notes, to answer the questions on the Test, and to formulate a thread for the Discussion Board
- The geography of Palestine/Israel
- The Neolithic Age in Palestine/Israel
- The Chalcolithic Age in Palestine/Israel
- The Early Bronze Age in Palestine/Israel
- The Early Bronze IV / Mid Bronze I Transition in Palestine/Israel.
- The Story of Sinuhe
- The Execration texts of Egypt
- Abraham in Egypt
- Abraham and Lot
- Abraham and Sarah
- Isaac, Esau, and Jacob
- Jacob and Laban
- The Story of Sinuhe, and its descriptions of the cultures of the Mid Bronze Age.
- Using Genesis 11:27 - 25:11 as your main source material, make notes on the Life of Abraham. Notice where the account in Genesis does or does not fit with a setting in the Mid Bronze Age as we know it at present.
- Instances in the Genesis accounts for times of drought and famine.
Discussion Board 6
Thread : Where/when would you prefer to have lived
- traveling through the Levant as one of Abraham's servants or servant-girls
- traveling with Sinuhe as one of his servants or servant-girls
- traveling through the Levant as one of Rachel's servants or servant-girls
Choose one of the options, describe what your life might have been like, and say why you chose it rather than the other options.
Replies to 2 of your classmates' threads : If possible, choose threads which deal with different options.
Test on Module 6
Go to the Test Section of the course on Canvas, and take the test at least once before 12 noon of the Monday following the Module.
You will have 1 hour to complete the test.
You may take the test three times before the cut-off time.
Questions will vary each time you take the test.
Your highest score will count towards your course grade.
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