Useful Web Resources

Chapter 1 - The Pre-History of Christian Thought

Images:

Philo of Alexandria:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Philon.jpg

Cicero:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M-T-Cicero.jpg

Torah:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K%C3%B6ln-Tora-und-Innenansicht-Synagoge-Glockengasse-040.JPG

Alexander the Great:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BattleofIssus333BC-mosaic-detail1.jpg

Caesar Augustus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Statue-Augustus.jpg

Hebrew/Jewish history

Articles:

http://mason.gmu.edu/~ddonald/typeassignment/index3.htm

http://www.science.co.il/Israel-history.php (brief history)

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/History/HISTORY-+Biblical+Times.htm

http://philologos.org/__eb-bhot/ (online book related to the Biblical history of Israel)

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/68870/jewish/Jewish-History.htm

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYInzZFadvo&feature=related – 4 part series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR5GQ--YNpI&feature=related – series on the History of Hebrew language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FspfOI_YRU – animated map of empires in the Middle East

Greek History

Articles:

http://www.ancient-greece.org/history/intro.html

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ancient-political/ (political thought of ancient Greece and Rome)

http://history-world.org/ancient_greece.htm

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FrHGAd_yto&feature=BF&list=SP023BCE5134243987&index=1 – series of lectures on Ancient Greece, Prof. Donald Kagan, Yale University

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OizgSfsxX9c&feature=fvw – Alexander the Great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEabk4FnSaI – Alexander the Great

Romans

Articles:

http://cliojournal.wikispaces.com/How+the+Jesus+Cult+Captured+the+Roman+State (don’t let the “wikispaces” fool you…this is a journal article which gives a slightly more secular opinion of the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire)

http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/index.html

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwpp60nRVAw (animated map of the Roman Empire over time)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIsgywYkGhk&playnext=1&list=PLC97DF67D90C5EAB0 (documentary on Rome from History Channel—9 part series)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INMJiElNXBI (5 part series on history of Rome)

Chapter 2 - Jesus of Nazareth

Articles:

http://www.culturalresources.com/Jesus.html

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcno.htm

http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/menus/historical.html (writings of William Lane Craig on the Historical Jesus)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08375a.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14597a.htm (Catholic understanding of the teachings of Jesus)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/christiantheology-philosophy/

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrS5lRLi0uI (debate on the resurrection between William Lane Craig and Shabir Ally)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ws463jX4k  (“In Search of the Historical Jesus”—lengthy lecture on the scholarship devoted to finding out about the real Jesus)

Images:

Christ Pantocrater:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jesus-Christ-from-Hagia-Sophia.jpg

John Dominic Crossan, co-founder of Jesus Seminar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:11_08_6972_John_Dominic_Crossan.jpg

N. T. Wright:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NTWright071220.jpg