| Lecture | Topic & Reading |
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| Session 1 | Introduction |
| Session 2 | The Geographical Setting and the Historical Framework |
| |  Readings 1-4
Eliav’s Study on Geography (on Academia, pp. 259-261)
 Video #1: Introduction
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| Session 3 | History without Words: From the Pre-History of the Land to the Dawn of History |
| | Readings 5-10
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| Session 4 | Conquering or Settling in Peacefully: Archaeology, Bible, and Modern Scholarship |
| | Readings 11-16
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| Session 5 | From Tribal Society to Monarchies: The Philistines, the Israelites, and their Neighbors |
| | Readings 17-21
Video #2: Tel Qasila
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| Session 6 | Jerusalem in the First Temple Period |
| | Read: Eliav, Entry on Jerusalem (mainly p. 113 – Topography and Early Beginnings)
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| Session 7 | In the Shadows of the Eastern Super-Powers (I): The Northern Israelite Kingdom |
| | Readings 22-29
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| Session 8 | In the Shadows of the Eastern Super-Powers (II): The Southern Judaean Kingdom |
| | Readings 30-34
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| Session 9 | The Persian Rule and the Judaean-Samaritan Conflict |
| | Readings 35-41
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| Session 10 | Turning West – The Hellenistic Period |
| | Background: Eliav’s Intro Article, pp. 262-263
Readings 42-45
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| Session 11 | The Rise and Fall of the Maccabean State |
| | Background: Eliav’s Intro Article, pp. 263-265
Readings 46-49
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| Session 12 | The Early Roman Period: From Herod to the Great Revolt |
| | Background: Eliav’s Intro Article, pp. 265-268
Readings 50-53
Video #3: Masada
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| Session 13 | Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in the Second Temple Period |
| | Read: Eliav, Entry on Jerusalem
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| Session 14 | Jesus and the Birth of Christianity |
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| Session 15 | The Later Roman Period – Political and Social History |
| | Background: Eliav’s “Jews and judaism 70-429″
Readings 54-58
Readings 59-64
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| Session 16 | Paul and the Rise of Christianity |
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| Session 17 | Byzantine Palestine |
| | Readings 65-69
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| Session 18 | From Cross to Crescent – The Islamic Conquest |
| | Readings 70-75
Video #4: Jerusalem
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| Session 19 | Jund Urdunn and Jund Filastin: The Land as Part of the Early Islamic Empires |
| | Readings 76-78
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| Session 20 | The “Jerusalem Kingdom” of the Crusades |
| | Readings 79-83
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Video #5: Western Galilee
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| Session 21 | From Saladin to Baybars: Drawing the Crusades “Back to the Ocean” |
| | Readings 84-86
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| Session 22 | The Mamluks |
| | Readings 87-90
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| Session 23 | The Ottomans |
| | Readings 91-94
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| Session 24 | The British Mandate |
| | Readings 95-100
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| Session 25 | 1948-2008: Two Generations of Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts |
| | Readings 101-105
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| Session 26 | Concluding Remarks: What’s in a Land? |
