Week 1

Read Introduction pages 9- top of 11. Four causes -- who, what, how, why -- efficient, material, formal, final. Answer "who" (author) and "what" (outline of scope). Look at ABC's Christian Culture timeline. .... know the general outline. Know how Christendom is defined.

Read pages 11-13 "how" "why" -- what's the purpose, how the author intends to carry it out. What does he emphasize? What does he leave out through limitations or because he considers it less important?

Learn about the course layout and expectations. Supplementary literature, knowledge and skills emphasized in course. Read a handout on primary sources. (I can write out a syllabus that can be flexed as things go through).

Study Skills Tips (optional). Memory, Research, Thinking (Logic, cause-effect, compare/contrast). see Jensen's and here.

Week 2

Prologue: In the Beginning

Read Genesis 1 (questions)
Scripture Study for Catholics
Agape Bible Study

Read pages 14-16

Read Genesis 2-3

Read pages 16-18


Chapter 3 -- Darkling Plain

Pages 21-23 The Flood
read Genesis account

pages 23-26 -- Neolithic REvolution
Jericho, Palestine as center of Earth

pages 26-30 Eridu -- Ur
Sumer -- Gilgamesh
read some sections of Gilgamesh
despair and death

pages 30-33
Egypt, monotheism

Harappa

End of Unit One

Unit Two

Chapter 2 -- Father in Faith

pages 38-40 Ur

pages 40-44 Sodom and Gomorrah

pages 44-45 Abraham

pages 45-46 Jacob

pages 47-50 Egypt -- Joseph

map of ancient world

Chapter Three -- Fire on Sinai

pages 59-63 Egypt

pages 63-67 Exodus

pages 67-72 Decalogue

pages 72-74 Wandering