Wondrium (Great Courses) launches Professor Joseph Lam’s “Creation Stories of the Ancient World”

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Wondrium (Great Courses) launches Professor Joseph Lam’s “Creation Stories of the Ancient World”
 

Religious studies professor Joseph Lam has recently released a 12-lecture course on Wondrium (formerly The Great Courses). This course, entitled “Creation Stories of the Ancient World,” is now available online. You can watch the trailer and see more information here: 

Creation Stories of the Ancient World | Wondrium 

Overview of the course: Creation stories—which recount the origins of the universe, the earth, and humanity—show us how ancient cultures made sense of the human condition. In this course, you’ll explore great creation texts such as the Babylonian Creation Epic, the Egyptian Memphite Theology, the Hittite Kumarbi Cycle, the Greek Theogony of Hesiod, the two contrasting accounts of creation in the biblical Genesis, and more.

Joseph Lam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. He is the author of Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible: Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept, as well as a number of scholarly articles in the fields of Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic studies. He teaches ancient languages beyond Hebrew, such as Akkadian, Aramaic/Syriac, and Ugaritic.

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