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The Historical Context of the Bible

This is a series of 37 lectures covering the ancient historical setting of the Bible. The instructor is Bruce W. Gore M.A., J.D., adjunct professor of biblical studies at Whitworth University, Spokane. The lecture was presented to a group of adult students at First Presbyterian Church, Spokane, and the bias of the teacher is generally sympathetic to the biblical text, while allowing at the same time for problem areas in the effort to correlate biblical data with what is otherwise generally accepted from known ancient historical sources.

  1. Introduction to the Historical Context of the Bible
  2. Genesis 1 and Enuma Elish
  3. Noah’s Flood and the Epic of Gilgamesh
  4. Abraham in Historical Context
  5. Moses and the Code of Hammurabi
  6. The Adventures of Abraham in Egypt
  7. Joseph and the Hyksos Pharaohs
  8. Exodus and the 18th Dynasty
  9. Egypt and the Era of the Israelite Judges
  10. The Hittites and the Era of the Israelite Judges
  11. The Assyrian Empire and the Israelite Monarchy
  12. The Assyrian Empire and Jonah
  13. The Assyrian Empire, Isaiah and King Ahaz
  14. Hezekiah, Sennacherib, and Big Surprises
  15. Manasseh and the End of the Assyrian Empire
  16. Assyria Falls, Babylon Rises, and Josiah Reforms
  17. Nebuchadnezzar and Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles
  18. Jehoiachin, Belshazzar, and the Fall of Babylon
  19. Cyrus and the Liberation of God’s People
  20. Darius and the Completion of the Second Temple
  21. Xerxes the Great and Queen Esther
  22. Artaxerxes, Ezra, and Nehemiah
  23. The Greeks Seek for Wisdom
  24. Alexander the Great and the Old Testament
  25. The Hellenistic Age: Alexander to Antiochus III
  26. Antiochus Epiphanes and the Maccabees
  27. The Roman Empire and Nebuchadnezzar’s Vision
  28. Lessons from Rome’s Seven Kings
  29. The Rise of the Roman Republic
  30. Rome and Israel Collide
  31. Augustus Caesar and Imperial Rome
  32. Herod the Great
  33. Tiberius and Christian Beginnings
  34. Caligula, Agrippa, and a Sermon to Cornelius
  35. Claudius and the Journeys of Paul
  36. Nero and Imperial Persecution of Christians
  37. The Fall of Jerusalem and the Apocalypse