HRVB0115EU Ancient Near Eastern Religions

Volume 2022/2023
Education

Religion:

Fagstudieordning Bacheloruddannelsen i religionsvidenskab 2019

BA tilvalgstudieordning i Religionsvidenskab, 2019

KA tilvalgsstudieordning i Religionsvidenskab, 2019

Assyrologi og Ægyptologi

Fagstudieordning Bacheloruddannelserne i assyriologi, nærorientalsk arkæologi og ægyptologi, 2019

Fagstudieordning Bachelortilvalg i assyriologi, nærorientalsk arkæologi og ægyptologi, 2019

 

Content

This course will offer a unique opportunity to study some of the world’s oldest religions in a comparative perspective. It is an interdisciplinary initiative between the disciplines of the Study of Religions, Egyptology, and Assyriology. The course is theme-oriented and each unit has both a more theoretical part along with an empirical component that focuses on texts and objects from Egypt and Mesopotamia. Themes studied include deities and concepts of the divine, mythologies, temples and sacred space, ritual leaders and other religious agents, rituals and festivals, hymns and prayers, magic, healing rituals and divination, conceptions of death and afterlife. Students will also be introduced to the main textual sources (such as the Gilgamesh Epic, the Babylonian Epic of Creation, the Myth of Isis and Osiris, and the Book of the Dead), excerpts of which will be read in English translation.

Students will obtain a general overview of the basic theoretical debates in the history of religions, as well as a basic overview of religious beliefs and practices in ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia (c. 3300 BCE – 300 CE). It is offered on BA and MA levels and will be co-taught by internationally recognized experts in their fields.

Learning Outcome

Religion:

BA 2019-studieordning
Valgfrit område (aktivitetskode HRVB00151E)
Valgfrit område med sprogudøvning (aktivitetskode HRVB00171E)

BA tilvalg 2019-studieordning
Valgfrit område (aktivitetskode HRVB10231E) 

KA tilvalg 2019-studieordning
Valgfrit område 1 (aktivitetskode HRVK13001E)

Assyriologi:

BA 2019-studieordning
Samfund B (aktivitetskode HASB00551E)

BA tilvalg 2019-studieordning
Samfund B (aktivetskode HASB10121E)

Ægytologi:

BA 2019-studieordning
Oldægyptisk kultur B (aktivitetskode HÆGB00171E)

BA tilvalg 2019-studieordning
Oldægyptisk kultur B (aktivetskode HÆGB10121E)

Information will be found on Absalon in good time before the course-start

Lectures, discussions, student presentations
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Lectures
  • 84
  • Preparation
  • 328,5
  • Total
  • 412,5
Oral
Collective
Continuous feedback during the course
Credit
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Other
Criteria for exam assesment