In Case you missed it:
Deacon Robert Henrey presented his four part series. . .

The Ancient Near East: Land of Babel
In this series of presentations, Robert Henrey shared his interest in the highly diverse historical and cultural environments that characterized the Ancient Mesopotamian and Mediterranean world. He set out to give an overview of the events that made it possible for narratives and traditions to develop, especially those underlying the scriptures, and be eventually recorded thereby ensuring their transmission down the generations. It’s a fascinating story and one that is relevant to our contemporary world as we cope with our overarching need to communicate with each other, and at the same time, balance the pursuit for national identity with the forces of globalization. Despite their complexity, Robert attempted to present the events as straightforwardly and engagingly as possible, with each presentation fully illustrated with on-screen, relative graphics.
November 18:
Part 4: The challenge of Transmitting Tradition to Posterity: The rise of Roman power; Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew at the crossroads and the saga of how the Hebrew and Christian scriptures eventually came to be recorded
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November 11:
Part 3: Conflicts between Identity and competing World Views: Cyrus’ Persian Empire, the post-Exilic quest for identity, Alexander the Great’s universal dream and the adaptation of the Hebrew scriptures to a Hellenized world
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October 18- Part 2: Empires, Alphabets and Exile: The rise of Mesopotamian Empires, the powerful innovation of alphabetic writing, and the spread of Aramaic up to the Jewish Exile
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October 4- Part 1: The Origins of Writing and Narrative:
The development of writing from its Mesopotamian cuneiform origins to a medium fit for transmitting codes of conduct and pre-Biblical narratives
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