History 508:200 ANCIENT NEAR EAST (=685:200) Spring 2007 Jack Cargill
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Office Van Dyck 103 (CAC); Office
Hours Mondays
E-Mail Address jcargill@rci.rutgers.edu; Website http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/jcargill
Required paperbacks to purchase at New Jersey Books (only):
HB = Jack CARGILL, Handbook for Ancient History Classes (Paige Press 1997)
Text = William H. STIEBING, Jr., Ancient
Near Eastern History & Culture (Longman 2003)
P1 =
James PRITCHARD, The Ancient Near East, vol. 1 (
P2 =
James PRITCHARD, The Ancient Near East, vol. 2 (
Merc = Jack CARGILL, Mercenary of the Gods (
HB is assigned by Sections and/or Parts.
Text is assigned by Chapters and (if necessary) Page numbers (breaks are all at subheadings).
P1 and P2 are assigned by Page numbers (the reader must figure out where an item begins or ends on a given page; when in doubt, read the entire page). Marginal references in P1 and P2 to figures refer to illustrations at the back of each volume that are associated with particular readings: look at these, too.
Merc is assigned by its Major Textual Divisions.
Not assigned but recommended for seriously-interested students, and mentioned in lectures:
Bible passages: Accessible online at http://worldenglishbible.org/bible/web
BAR = Biblical Archaeology Review, accessible online at http://www.basarchive.org/bswbBrowse.asp
COS = Context of Scripture, 3-vol. collection
(1997-2002) of ANE sources in translation that partially supersedes the
collection (ANET) from which P1 and P2 are taken; no comparable selections from
Chavalas, ANE and Simpson, LAE = Mark W. Chavalas (ed.), The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation (2006) and William Kelly Simpson (ed.), The Literature of Ancient Egypt (2003), recent and large-scale paperback selections that will in effect supersede the Pritchard volumes, but which I have not yet had the time to read carefully and incorporate into this course.
Visual Aids will be considered part of the lectures, and students will be responsible for them on tests:
Transparencies of maps, charts, and photos will be used with most lectures.
Videotapes & DVDs, a few long ones (50-55 minutes) and several short ones (ca. 25 minutes), will be shown in class. When the RU Media Center owns a tape, students who miss its in-class showing can make personal arrangements with the Center (basement of Kilmer Library, Livingston Campus) to see the tape at their convenience. Certain categories of RU-owned tapes may be broadcast over RU-TV, in addition to or instead of being shown in class (such showings will be announced in advance). But be warned: Some tapes shown in class will NOT be RU-owned tapes, and the ONLY chance to see such a tape is its scheduled in-class showing.
GRADING will be based on two 80-minute tests during the semester and a 90-minute Final Exam, each of which counts as 1/3 of the course grade. Each test (including the Final) will cover only readings, lectures, videotapes, etc. since the preceding exam. No one may take a Make-Up Test for any exam (again including the Final) who has not signed in as attending at least half the lectures since the preceding exam; a Make-Up Test also requires a valid medical excuse, or something equivalent (see HB for details).
Students who have taken both in-semester tests as scheduled, with the class (not as Make-Ups), have signed in as attending at least half the class meetings between the second in-class test and the due date, and who follow other detailed rules exactly (these will be distributed to the class), may be eligible to do an Optional Writing Assignment based on Merc, whose grade (a maximum of 85 out of 100) can replace the lower of the two Test grades. Such optional assignments are not accepted late for ANY reason, and are not graded if ANY requirement is ignored. No exceptions will be made.
No special permissions to enroll will be given before Monday, Jan. 29. On that day they will be given (up to the room’s capacity) on the basis of two criteria: (1) Good work in a previous class with me, or (2) Attendance at the first four class meetings.
Part I: Early
Dynastic
Th Jan. 18 INTRODUCTION to Text and Course: Organization, Books, Attendance, Grading, etc.
Text ch. 1 (do readings by 2nd meeting)
P1 40-75 (Epic of Gilgamesh), or read a more reader-friendly online version:
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/index.html or
http://www.unf.edu/classes/freshmancore/halsall/gilgamesh-temple.htm
DVD on Gilgamesh
M
Jan. 22 VIDEO on
(Finish readings
above)
Th Jan. 25 EARLY DYNASTIC
Text ch. 2
P1 28-30, 75-85
P2 5-28, 123-5, 136-41
M Jan. 29 AKKADIAN & UR III PERIODS
Text ch. 3 (to p. 85)
P1 85-6 (cf. Doc. 3.1)
P2 31-4, 126-35, 142-8, 195-217
VIDEO on
Th Feb. 1 OLD BABYLONIAN RISE & APEX
Text ch. 3 (pp. 85-94 only)
P1 31-9, 133-67 (cf. Doc. 3.3), 231-3, 244-5, 250-2, 260-2
P2 1-5, 35-41, 70-8, 94-6, 174-8, 180-6, 188-96
M Feb. 5 AFTER HAMMURABI’S
Text ch. 3 (p. 94 to end)
P2 45-9, 78-9, 96-9, 148-67, 171-3
Th Feb. 8 GUEST LECTURE: Prof. Gary Rendsburg presents his SLIDES ON EGYPT
M Feb. 12
Text ch. 4 & ch. 5 (to p. 143)
P1 1-5, 12-6, 24-7, 234-7
Th Feb. 15 MIDDLE KINGDOM - EXPULSION OF HYKSOS
Text ch. 5 (p. 143 to end)
P1 5-11, 173-5, 225-6, 252-7
P2 87-93 (cf. Doc. 5.3)
M Feb. 19 CATCH-UP, REVIEW FOR 1st TEST
HB Secs. T3, M1 (see added Make-up requirement, above), G1-2, G4-8, G10-1, G14; Part Q; Part W; Part E; XT2.1-5
***Th Feb. 22 TEST
# 1***
Part II: Bronze-Age Empires Rise and
Fall; Recovery
M
Feb. 26 NEW KINGDOM (IMPERIAL)
Text ch. 6 (to p. 178)
P1 175-82
Th Mar. 1
AKHENATON, AMARNA, & AFTERMATH
Text ch. 6 (p. 178 to end)
P1 226-30 (cf. Doc. 6.1), 262-77
M
Mar. 5 DVD on HITTITES, MILETOS,
Th Mar. 8 HITTITES RISE TO GREATNESS
Text ch. 7 (to p. 205)
P1 87-91
P2 42-5
………………Spring
Break…………………
Drop with “W” deadline is Monday March 19.
M Mar. 19 19th DYNASTY TO END OF BRONZE AGE
Text ch. 7 (p. 205 to end)
P1 92-132, 182-7 top, 231 (cf. Doc. 7.2), 257-9
P2 29-30, 79-81
Th Mar. 22 RECOVERY & TRANSFORMATIONS
Text ch. 8 (except pp. 241-51)
P1 16-24, 187-93 (cf. Doc. 8.1), 209-10, 215-20, 237-43
P2 49-51, 99-104, 113-8, 221-6, 230-9
***M Mar. 26 TEST # 2***
Review Feb. 19 Assignment
Part III: Assyrian, Babylonian, & Persian Empires;
ANE Legacies (including Biblical)
Th Mar. 29 NEO-ASSYRIAN DOMINATION
Text ch. 9 (to p. 278)
P1 193-202 (cf. Doc. 9.1), 212 top, rev. 218-9
P2 17-26, 52-69, 168-71, 178-80 (j only), 186-8, 227 top
VIDEO on Assurnasirpal II
M Apr. 2 NEO-BABYLONIAN (CHALDAEAN) EMPIRE
Text ch. 9 (pp. 279-86 only)
P1 202-5, bot 212-4
P2 81, 104-13, 118-9, 122
VIDEO on
Th Apr. 5 TEXT ON
Text ch. 8 (pp. 241-51 only); ch. 9 (p. 286 to end); ch. 11 (pp. 327-8 only)
P1 209, 211
P2 121
Three Meetings devoted to Reading & Discussing
Cargill article and book, sandwiched around an in-class VIDEO:
M Apr. 9 Read Cargill article on Website: “Ancient Israel in Western Civ Textbooks” and
Merc Preface, Chronology, King Lists, Conventions…, glance at Notes
OWA (due Th Apr. 26: see below) discussed
Th Apr. 12 VIDEO on Biblical Archaeology
M Apr. 16 Merc Prologue & Part I (chs. 1-11)
Th Apr. 19 Merc Part II (chs. 12-23) & Epilogue
M Apr. 23 PERSIAN EMPIRE: ESTABLISHMENT, HEIGHT, CULTURE
Text ch. 10, pp. 293-303, 305-8, 310-13
P1 206-8 (=Doc. 10.1)
P2 227mid-229
DVD
on
Th Apr. 26 PERSIAN EMPIRE: RELIGIONS (Zoroastrianism & Judaism) AND WARS (with Greeks, Egyptians, & Macedonians)
Text ch. 10, pp. 308-10, 313-18, then 303-5, 318-20
P1 170-2, 220-4, 245-9, 278-82 (=Doc. 10.2)
P2 83-6
OPTIONAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT due (not accepted after today; no excuses).
I will supply a Cover Sheet that differs from HB XR1 (use of the one I supply is required).
HB (with some modifications) Secs. G3, G5, G12; Part W
M Apr. 30 ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LEGACIES
Text ch. 11
P1 fig. 72 (Rosetta Stone)
P2 119-20, 220-1
Review for Final Exam (see Feb. 19/Mar. 26 Assignments).
(Note that
Final ends at