I will swing free until they cut me down
Oct. 16th, 2007 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbWell, so.
There was study. Much of it, and much interesting. I like Near Eastern history of c900-c300 BCE (our course is with specific reference to Judah and Israel, and their relationship to the great empires - the NeoAssyrians, the NeoBabylonians, Egypt and the Persian Achaemenids). It has much that is fascinating.
And Greek. Both the language (koine Greek), and the history and archaeology of Greece from the Bronze Age on down to (and through) Classical times has much to recommend it. Settlement patterns, development of social differentiation and stratification, possible cult and ritual significance of buildings, material culture, oh, I love it so.
Wouldn't want to live there, as they say, but it's an interesting place to study.
Much joy, however, arises from the fact that my Prophecy lecturer will not be present for his lectures this week. Which means I may actually get to have lunch at lunchtime sometime this week.
(I am appallingly sleepy, and will probably think better of having posted this in the morning.)
There was study. Much of it, and much interesting. I like Near Eastern history of c900-c300 BCE (our course is with specific reference to Judah and Israel, and their relationship to the great empires - the NeoAssyrians, the NeoBabylonians, Egypt and the Persian Achaemenids). It has much that is fascinating.
And Greek. Both the language (koine Greek), and the history and archaeology of Greece from the Bronze Age on down to (and through) Classical times has much to recommend it. Settlement patterns, development of social differentiation and stratification, possible cult and ritual significance of buildings, material culture, oh, I love it so.
Wouldn't want to live there, as they say, but it's an interesting place to study.
Much joy, however, arises from the fact that my Prophecy lecturer will not be present for his lectures this week. Which means I may actually get to have lunch at lunchtime sometime this week.
(I am appallingly sleepy, and will probably think better of having posted this in the morning.)
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Date: 2007-10-17 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 07:57 pm (UTC)(Prophecy in Judah and Israel: its social and historical location. It would be fun, if the lecturer didn't lecture as though the lecturn were a pulpit. :P)