Displaying 1 of 1 2010 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: The Holy Land revealed [videorecording] / the Teaching Company. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2010. Description: 6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 146 p. ; 19 cm.) Series: Great courses. Religion and theology Great courses (DVD). Religion. Subjects: Educational films. Filmed lectures. Palestine -- History. Israel -- History. Jordan -- History. Other Author: Magness, Jodi. Teaching Company. Notes: 36 lectures/30 minutes per lecture. Lecturer: Professor Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. DVD. Contents: Disc 1. The land of Canaan -- The arrival of the Israelites -- Jerusalem- an introduction to the city -- The Jerusalem of David and Solomon -- Biblical Jerusalem's ancient water systems -- Samaria and the northern kingdom of Israel -- Disc 2. Fortifications and cult practices -- Babylonian exile and the Persian restoration -- Alexander the Great and his successors -- The Hellenization of Palestine -- The Maccabean revolt -- The Hasmonean kingdom -- Disc 3. Pharisees and Sadducees -- Discovery and site of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- The sectarian settlement at Qumran -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes -- The life of the Essenes -- From Roman annexation to Herod the Great -- Disc 4. Herod as builder- Jerusalem's Temple Mount -- Caesarea maritima- harbor and showcase city -- From Herod's last years to Pontius Pilate -- Galilee- setting of Jesus's life and ministry -- Synagogues in the time of Jesus -- Sites of the trial and final hours of Jesus -- Disc 5. Early Jewish tombs in Jerusalem -- Monumental tombs in the time of Jesus -- The burials of Jesus and James -- The first Jewish revolt: Jerusalem destroyed -- Masada- Herod's desert palace and the siege -- Flavius Josephus and the mass suicide -- Disc 6. The second Jewish revolt against the Romans -- Roman Jerusalem- Hadrian's Aelia Capitolina -- Christian emperors and pilgrimage sites -- Judaism and synagogues under Christian rule -- Islam's transformation of Jerusalem -- What and how archaeology reveals. ISBN: 9781598036992 1598036998 Other Number: 697539042 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 392261 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 956.94 Holy Lan Medium: [videorecording] Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
