Bible & Archaeology, featuring Dr. Robert R. Cargill – Roger A. Hornsby Associate Professor in the Classics at the University of Iowa – has launched its online course, The Cities of the Bible. In this online course, Dr. Cargill provides learners with a tour of key cities and their representative peoples that made the greatest impact on the composition of the Bible. The Office of Innovation proudly supports the ongoing growth of the Bible & Archaeology project as it explores innovative ways to engage the public with humanities scholarship through video, podcasts, and social media.
About the Course:
For many, the cities of the Holy Land are known merely as the setting for the epic stories and heroic adventures detailed in the Bible. But what if each of these cities and the people who built and inhabited them actually contributed to the very composition of the Bible we know today? In this online course, The University of Iowa’s Dr. Robert Cargill will provide you with a tour of key cities and their representative peoples that made the greatest impact on the composition of the Bible.
Across a series of eight talks, you will learn about the Phoenician cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos; the remains of Ugarit; the Assyrian center at Nineveh; the ancient powerhouse of Babylon; the strategic crossroads of Megiddo; the Greek intellectual centers of Athens and Alexandria; the Jewish capital in Jerusalem; Qumran and the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls; Jesus’s towns of Bethlehem and Nazareth; and the new center of Christianity in Rome. Along the way, Dr. Cargill will examine the intersection of archaeological sites, artifacts, and ancient texts, explaining how archaeology not only illuminates the Bible, but actually contributed to the very production of the Bible itself.
The Instructor:
Dr. Robert R. Cargill is the Roger A. Hornsby Associate Professor in the Classics at the University of Iowa. He teaches biblical studies and archaeology and can be seen lending his expertise about the ancient world to dozens of television series.
What's Included: ALL EIGHT talks