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• Sustainable Living: Environment II

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    Glen MacDonald on Sustainable Living

    Glen MacDonald 01:19:06
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    Tara Kolla on Sustainable Living

    Tara Kolla 00:37:28
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    Mud Baron on Sustainable Living

    Mud Baron 00:49:43
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    Lisa KaasBoyle on Sustainable Living

    Lisa KaasBoyle 00:45:48
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    Michael B. Lehrer on Sustainable Living

    Michael B. Lehrer 01:39:16
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    Mia Lehrer on Sustainable Living

    Mia Lehrer 00:26:06
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    Jonathan Parfrey on Sustainable Living

    Jonathan Parfrey 00:46:55
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    Amy Lukken on Sustainable Living

    Amy Lukken 00:33:41

• Technological Tools for School Reform

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• Technologies for Creative Learning

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• Ten Images of Hell in the Twentieth Century

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• The American Novel Since 1945

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    The American Novel Since 1945

    Amy Hungerford 00:47:36
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    Richard Wright, Black Boy

    Amy Hungerford 00:50:30
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    Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

    Amy Hungerford 00:47:07
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    Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont)

    Amy Hungerford 00:44:46
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    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

    Amy Hungerford 00:51:31
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    Nabokov and Modernism

    Andrew Goldstone 00:43:26
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    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont)

    Amy Hungerford 00:46:43
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    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

    Amy Hungerford 00:47:47
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    Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont)

    Amy Hungerford 00:45:52
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    J D Salinger, Franny and Zooey

    Amy Hungerford 00:47:30
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    John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse

    Amy Hungerford 00:49:11
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    Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

    Amy Hungerford 00:49:28
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    Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

    Amy Hungerford 00:50:01
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    Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior

    Amy Hungerford 00:50:56
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    Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

    Amy Hungerford 00:46:52
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    Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont)

    Amy Hungerford 00:49:29
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    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

    Amy Hungerford 00:50:13
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    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont)

    Amy Hungerford 00:40:20
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    Philip Roth, The Human Stain

    Amy Hungerford 00:48:52
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    Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont- 2)

    Amy Hungerford 00:49:36
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    Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont -3)

    Amy Hungerford 00:45:59
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    Edward P Jones, The Known World

    Amy Hungerford 00:50:58
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    Edward P Jones, The Known World (cont)

    Amy Hungerford 00:46:44
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    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

    Amy Hungerford 00:45:48
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    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont)

    Amy Hungerford 00:48:56
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    Review for Final Exam

    Amy Hungerford 00:55:18

• The American Revolution

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    Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution

    Joanne Freeman 00:40:23
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    Being a British Colonist

    Joanne Freeman 00:39:30
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    Being a British American

    Joanne Freeman 00:40:15
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    "Ever at Variance and Foolishly Jealous": Intercolonial Relations

    Joanne Freeman 00:41:39
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    Outraged Colonials: The Stamp Act Crisis

    Joanne Freeman 00:41:10
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    Resistance or Rebellion? (Or, What the Heck is Happening in Boston?)

    Joanne Freeman 00:46:44
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    Being a Revolutionary

    Joanne Freeman 00:46:05
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    The Logic of Resistance

    Joanne Freeman 00:47:45
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    Who Were the Loyalists?

    Joanne Freeman 00:45:51
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    Common Sense

    Joanne Freeman 00:43:09
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    Independence

    Joanne Freeman 00:41:56
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    Civil War

    Joanne Freeman 00:43:30
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    Organizing a War

    Joanne Freeman 00:49:01
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    Heroes and Villains

    Joanne Freeman 00:48:59
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    Citizens and Choices: Experiencing the Revolution in New Haven

    Joanne Freeman 00:43:00
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    The Importance of George Washington

    Joanne Freeman 00:44:40
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    The Logic of a Campaign (or, How in the World Did We Win?)

    Joanne Freeman 00:46:50
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    Fighting the Revolution: The Big Picture

    Joanne Freeman 00:46:14
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    War and Society

    Joanne Freeman 00:43:20
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    Confederation

    Joanne Freeman 00:43:26
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    A Union Without Power

    Joanne Freeman 00:47:05
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    The Road to the Constitutional Convention

    Joanne Freeman 00:44:21
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    Creating a Constitution

    Joanne Freeman 00:46:00
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    Creating a Nation

    Joanne Freeman 00:40:56
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    Being an American: The Legacy of the Revolution

    Joanne Freeman 00:41:19

• The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

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    Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?

    David W. Blight 00:43:07
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    Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region

    David W. Blight 00:52:07
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    A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology

    David W. Blight 00:51:00
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    A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology, and the Abolition Movement

    David W. Blight 00:51:23
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    Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality

    David W. Blight 00:50:13
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    Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850

    David W. Blight 00:53:16
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    "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party

    David W. Blight 00:47:54
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    Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union

    David W. Blight 00:52:27
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    John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?

    David W. Blight 00:52:24
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    The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

    David W. Blight 00:51:01
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    Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?

    David W. Blight 00:50:18
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    "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies

    David W. Blight 00:46:37
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    Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency

    David W. Blight 00:52:53
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    Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863

    David W. Blight 00:50:28
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    Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy

    David W. Blight 00:51:49
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    Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War

    David W. Blight 00:48:40
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    Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War

    David W. Blight 00:50:47
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    "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost

    David W. Blight 00:50:32
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    To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings

    David W. Blight 00:51:12
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    Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic

    David W. Blight 00:48:35
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    Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction

    David W. Blight 00:50:44
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    Constitutional Crisis and the Impeachment of a President

    David W. Blight 00:52:08
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    Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor

    David W. Blight 00:51:21
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    Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"

    David W. Blight 00:50:03
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    The End of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the Compromise of 1877

    David W. Blight 00:52:20
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    Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory

    David W. Blight 00:51:42
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    Legacies of the Civil War

    David W. Blight 00:49:16

• The Crusades (HIST 4332)

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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 1A

    Sally Vaughn 01:11:49
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 1B

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:35
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 2A

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:51
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 2B

    Sally Vaughn 01:18:34
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 3A

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:11
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 3B

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:59
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 4A

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:27
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 4B

    Sally Vaughn 01:17:33
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 5A

    Sally Vaughn 01:15:57
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 5B

    Sally Vaughn 01:17:43
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 6A

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:48
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 6B

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:38
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 7A

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:01
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 7B

    Sally Vaughn 01:09:50
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 8A

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:43
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 8B

    Sally Vaughn 01:18:03
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 9A

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:36
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 9B

    Sally Vaughn 01:17:14
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 10A

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:56
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 10B

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:28
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 11A

    Sally Vaughn 01:16:11
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 11B

    Sally Vaughn 01:17:42
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 12A

    Sally Vaughn 01:15:32
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    HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 12B

    Sally Vaughn 01:09:11

• The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000

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    Course Introduction: Rome's Greatness and First Crises

    Paul Freedman 00:40:09
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    The Crisis of the Third Century and the Diocletianic Reforms

    Paul Freedman 00:48:37
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    Constantine and the Early Church

    Paul Freedman 00:45:18
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    The Christian Roman Empire

    Paul Freedman 00:47:56
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    Transformation of the Roman Empire

    Paul Freedman 00:49:22
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    Barbarian Kingdoms

    Paul Freedman 00:49:15
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    Survival in the East

    Paul Freedman 00:47:10
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    The Reign of Justinian

    Paul Freedman 00:48:47
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    Clovis and the Franks

    Paul Freedman 00:46:55
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    Frankish Society

    Paul Freedman 00:50:01
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    Britain and Ireland

    Paul Freedman 00:44:15
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    Monasticism

    Paul Freedman 00:45:50
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    Mohammed and the Arab Conquests

    Paul Freedman 00:43:15
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    Islamic Conquests and Civil War

    Paul Freedman 00:49:44
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    The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Splendor of the Abbasid Period

    Paul Freedman 00:44:11
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    The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Crucial Seventh Century

    Paul Freedman 00:45:18
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    The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Splendor of Byzantium

    Paul Freedman 00:48:40
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    The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Charlemagne

    Paul Freedman 00:46:15
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    The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Intellectuals and the Court of Charlemagne

    Paul Freedman 00:44:02
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    The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Crisis of the Carolingians

    Paul Freedman 00:46:02
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    Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000

    Paul Freedman 00:48:59

• The Hebrew Scriptures in Judaism and Christianity

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    Welcome to the Online Course

    Shaye Cohen 00:01:45
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    Introduction to the Course

    Shaye Cohen 00:30:07
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    What is the Bible

    Shaye Cohen 00:47:32
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    What is Judaism?

    Shaye Cohen 00:46:03
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    What is Christianity?

    Shaye Cohen 00:45:45
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    Jewish Bible Interpretation in Antiquity

    Shaye Cohen 00:44:09
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    Christian Bible Interpretation in Antiquity

    Shaye Cohen 00:46:49
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    The Parting of the Ways

    Shaye Cohen 00:47:35
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    Justin Martyr and Early Christianity

    Shaye Cohen 00:45:30
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    Circumcision- The Jewish Understanding

    Shaye Cohen 00:46:37
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    Circumcision: The Christian Understanding

    Shaye Cohen 00:47:32
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    The Food Laws- The Jewish View

    Shaye Cohen 00:49:23
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    The Food Laws- The Christian View

    Shaye Cohen 00:47:13
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    The Sabbath

    Shaye Cohen 00:43:01
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    From Shabbat to Sunday

    Shaye Cohen 00:43:18
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    Pesah / Passover

    Shaye Cohen 00:44:50
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    The Seder

    Shai Agassi 00:50:55
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    From Pesah to Pascha

    Shaye Cohen 00:49:37
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    Melito of Sardis and the Christian Passover

    Shaye Cohen 00:46:12
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    The One God, Torah, and Logos

    Shaye Cohen 00:49:42
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    The One God who is Two

    Shaye Cohen 00:49:44
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    Messiah- The Restoration of Davidic King

    Shaye Cohen 00:49:49
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    Christ as King and Messaih

    Shaye Cohen 00:47:52
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    Atonement through Sacrifice and its Surrogates

    Shaye Cohen 00:48:22
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    Atonement through the Sacrifice of Christ

    Shaye Cohen 00:46:29
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    Israel, the People of God

    Shaye Cohen 00:51:13
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    Who is the True Israel

    Shaye Cohen 00:46:57