The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - The Gilgamesh Epic

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Looking Back
1:12 The Bible felt like a work of Another Age
1:51 _The Epic Of Gilgamesh_ informs reading of The Bible
3:25 Versions handed down in ancient languages; absorb and adapt

4:47 Epic Tradition
Politics, Ethics, Physics
5:23 Most of society is illiterate, so it is an Oral Tradition
6:18 Epic’s have Journey, Cultural Hero/Moral Paragon. Legitimizes Political Powers.
8:03 Beloved of God/s

8:39 Uruk
9:07 Outside the walls; seeing Ink’idu
10:03 Dreams of a Meteor
10:44 Taming 11:24 Sex-Religion-Society
⚔️ —> Mutual Respect ✊✊
Fight The Monster Umbaba/Huwawa
14:07 Dreams, message from Spirit World
15:06 Ishtar rejected by Gilgamesh 16:11 Send down his misfortune, 7 years of famine, earthquakes
17:12 Divine Frustration

18:07 Inki’du sickens and dies
18:37 Curse Her! Better to die as a man within than an animal outside
19:29 “I’m going to die.”

20:30 King Hukapishkam & His Wife
21:57 Scorpion Men, A Cosmic Bar Maid
23:13 Crossing The Waters of Death
24:00 All Must Face Death

25:04 Sleep is Symbolic Death
26:38 Tell him about Eternal Life
27:29 Plant of Eternal Life 🌱
The Snake ate The Eternal Life 🌱 🐍
29:01 Superior People Die

30:03 Biblical Themes
Eve, Temple Harlot
Ishtar/Gilgamesh —> Divine/Man
31:51 The Self
Myth and History
32:44 Umbaba, what was he really?
33:47 Goliath
34:47 Promise
36:09 It’s hard to talk to The Boss of Polytheism

36:55 [Redacted]

38:14 All Is One
39:04 Big Picture

39:40 Epic Tradition & The Bible
40:09 Hero
40:27 Journey, Obstacles/Ordeals
41:07 Quest For The Valuable
41:37 Learning Pains
42:01 The Homecoming
42:21 Triumph of The Sacred

42:55 Chosen People - Collective Hero
Exodus - Start of a Journey

44:05 Providential Moving

45:20 Epic of Moral Self-Invention

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Lecture 1. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - The Gilgamesh Epic
Lecture 2.?
Lecture 3.?
Lecture 4. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - Job and the Problem of Evil
Lecture 5. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - Isaiah: Turning Swords into Plowshares
Lecture 6. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - Matthew: The New Law
Lecture 7. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - Luke and Acts: From Jerusalem to Rome
Lecture 8. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - John: The Unbroken Net of Scripture
Lecture 9. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - The Pauline Tradition
Lecture 10.?
Lecture 11. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - Augustine and the Christian Self
Lecture 12. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 2 - Meister Eckhart: From Whom God Hid Nothing
Lecture 13.?
Lecture 14.?
Lecture 15.?
Lecture 16. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 2 - Utopia: Between Heaven and Earth
Lecture 17. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 3 - Luther and the Reformation
Lecture 18. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 3 - Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
Lecture 19.?
Lecture 20. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 3 - Hume, Swift, and the Collapse of Deism
Lecture 21. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 3 - Kierkegaard's Leap of Faith
Lecture 22.?
Lecture 23. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 3 - Nietzsche and the Death of God
Lecture 24. The Bible and Western Culture - Part 3 - Joyce: From Religion to Art

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