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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero
Mesopotamia: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order

Chapter Outline

  1. The Gods of Mesopotamia
    1. effects of the environment
    2. Sumerian creation myth: the Babylonian Creation
    3. the search for immortality: the Epic of Gilgamesh
  2. The Rulers of Mesopotamia
    1. Sumer
    2. Babylon
  3. The Social Order and the Arts
    1. Hammurabi's Code
    2. the ziggurat
  4. The Hebrews
    1. early history of the Hebrews
      1. the covenant
      2. ethical monotheism
    2. the Hebrew social order
      1. morality and patriarchy
      2. laws additional to the Decalogue
    3. the early Hebrew state
      1. the role of the prophets
      2. Babylonian Captivity and the Book of Job
  5. The Iron Age
    1. the Hittites
    2. the Assyrian empire
    3. the Persian empire








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