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4000 Years in 4000 Minutes: Highlights of History
JH222
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Explore the dramas of the Jewish story from biblical times up to today. We won’t gallop through at breakneck speed but rather use a range of images and texts to linger over the significant turning points in the unfolding narrative and so identify the highlights of Jewish history.
12 October - “A wandering Aramean was my father”: the beginnings of the Jewish people
19 October - A king who knew not Joseph: the Israelites in ancient Egypt
26 October - David — king, warrior, singer, dancer, lover —transforms Jerusalem
2 November - Civil war breaks out, Samaria falls to the Assyrians—and Hezekiah builds a tunnel!
9 November -“By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept”: the first exile
16 November - Ester, Queen of Persia
23 November - After exile, what next? returning, rebuilding and renewing
30 November - From Alexander to Antiochus - and enter Judah Maccabee!
7 December - The Rise of Christianity and the parting of the ways…
14 December - Responses to Roman rule: the last stand at Matzada and the Bar Kochba Uprising
12 October - “A wandering Aramean was my father”: the beginnings of the Jewish people
19 October - A king who knew not Joseph: the Israelites in ancient Egypt
26 October - David — king, warrior, singer, dancer, lover —transforms Jerusalem
2 November - Civil war breaks out, Samaria falls to the Assyrians—and Hezekiah builds a tunnel!
9 November -“By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept”: the first exile
16 November - Ester, Queen of Persia
23 November - After exile, what next? returning, rebuilding and renewing
30 November - From Alexander to Antiochus - and enter Judah Maccabee!
7 December - The Rise of Christianity and the parting of the ways…
14 December - Responses to Roman rule: the last stand at Matzada and the Bar Kochba Uprising
Course Dates
- Tue 12th October 10
- Tue 19th October 10
- Tue 26th October 10
- Tue 2nd November 10
- Tue 9th November 10
- Tue 16th November 10
- Tue 23rd November 10
- Tue 30th November 10
- Tue 7th December 10
- Tue 14th December 10