Handouts List

General

• Inanna: Loud Thundering Storm
• Enuma Elish (Word doc)
• Hammurabi's Code (Word doc)
• The Avesta: Scenes from Hell (Zoroastrian)
• The Barbie Goddess Cult

Hinduism

• On Hindu Images
• In Praise of Devi
• Bhagavad-gita: Krishna's Totality

Buddhism

• The Buddha's First Sermon
• The Bodhyangs (Seven Stages of Meditation)
• A Tibetan Buddhist Tale
• Shantideva: Adopting the Spirit of Awakening

Judaism

• Getting Married Bible-style
• Josephus: Jerusalem 70 C.E.
• YHWH -- The Divine Name
• The Talmud's Tractates: A Listing
• A Page of Talmud
• Maimonides: Judaism's 13 Principles

Christianity

• Map of Jesus' Palestine
• Gods Galore
• Nine Kinds of Jesus
• Irenaeus on the Ebionites
• Tertullian on the Military
• Origen on Martyrdom
• Origen on War
• The Nicene Creed (325 C.E.)
• The Second Arian Confession (341 C.E.)
• The Myth of Apostolic Succession
• The Cloud
• Christian Heresies
• Augustine on War
• Augustine on Love and Lust
• Christianity's Ecumenical Councils
• Pseudo-Dionysus: The Mystical Theology (6th century)
• The Denominations of Christianity
• Angelo Clareno: An Inquisitorial Torture Session (1304)
• The Canticle of St. Francis of Assisi
• Bartolomé de las Casas on the Spanish Atrocities (1513)
• Luther's Reformation
• Martin Luther Concerning Christian Liberty (1520)
• Martin Luther's Small Catechism: The Creed (1529)
• Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
• Brigham Young on the Heavenly Father (1852)
• Vatican I on Papal Infallibility (1870)
• The Barmen Declaration (1934)
• Vatican II: The Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (1965)
• Bill Bright's Four Spiritual Laws

Early Christian Writings (Word format)

• Gospel of the Ebionites
• The Letter of Peter to James (ca. 200?)
• Gospel of Mary (2nd cent.?)
• Gospel of Thomas (ca. 50 or ca. 100)
• A Page from the Gospel of Thomas
• The Nag Hammadi Codices
• The Gospel of Truth (Valentinus?) (ca. 150)
• The Secret Teaching of John (ca. 175)
• Clement of Rome to Corinth (ca. 95)
• The Didache (ca. 100)
• Ignatius to Philadelphia (110)
• Ignatius to Smyrna (110)
• Ignatius to Ephesus (110)
• Ignatius to Magnesia (110)
• Ignatius to the Trallians (110)
• Ignatius to Polycarp (110)
• The Secret Gospel of Mark
• The Epistle of Barnabas (ca. 130)
• The Gospel of Peter (early 2nd cent.?)
• The Apocalypse of Peter
• The Shepherd of Hermas (ca. 150)
• The Proto-Gospel of James (ca. 150)
• The Muratorian Canon (ca. 155)
• Excerpt from Tertullian's Against Marcion
• The Acts of Pilate also known as Gospel of Nicodemus (ca. mid-4th cent. ?)
• Q (before 68)
• The Egerton Papyrus
• Gospel of Judas (National Geographic translation)

The Bible

• English Bible Translations
• Defining Scripture
• Biblical Contradictions
• Historical and Scientific Problems in the Bible
• The Bible said it, I believe it, and that's that.
• Getting Married Bible-style
• The Beginnings of the Hebrew Bible
• Why Moses Did Not Write the Torah
• The Flood according to J
• The Flood according to P
• Canons of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
• James Kugel: Assumptions of Ancient Biblical Interpretation
• Abraham Heschel: The Prophet's Response
• Adam and Eve as First Farmers (Genesis 2-3)
• Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22)
• Job's Challenge
• Shaye Cohen: Why These and Not Those?
• Codex Vaticanus: Mark 15:43-16:8
• New Testament Transmission Errors

Islam

• Muhammad -- A Brief Biography
• Hadith: The Night of Power (the first revelation to Muhammad)
• Hadith: Muhammad's Night Journey
• Introduction to the Qur'an
• The Development of the Canonical Qur'an
• The Mathematical Miracle of the Qur'an
• Etiquette for Reading the Qur'an
• The Doctrine of Abrogation
• al-Ghazali: On Interpretation according to Individual Opinion
• al-Shafi: On Consensus
• The Testimony of Women