Archaeology and Religion Slide Set
By archaeologist Dan P. Cole, professor of religion, Lake Forest College

An unprecedented collection of places and objects expressing the human religious impulse over thousands of years. Features ̃gurines, ritual stands, cultic masks, amulets, temples, synagogues and churches.

MAJOR TOPICS:
  • Gods Before Israel
  • Gods of Ancient Israel and Its Neighbors
  • Gods of the Late Biblical Periods
  • Pre-Israelite Altars, High Places and Standing Stones
  • Israelite and Later Altars
  • Temples Before Israel
  • Temples of Israel
  • Later Non-Israelite Temples
  • Synagogues
  • Christian Churches
  • Installations for Water Immersion
  • Small Altars and Incense Shovels
  • Cult Stands
  • Cult Vessels
  • Standards and Scepters
  • Cult Masks
  • Objects Used in Divination
  • Votives and Amulets
  • The Temple Ark and Synagogue Arks
  • Temple and Synagogue Menorahs

    PARTIAL LIST OF SLIDES:
  • Horvat Minha, Neolithic Female Figurine
  • Bronze Statuette of Ba'al
  • Ashkelon, Middle Bronze Age Silver Calf
  • Israelite "High Place" Bronze Bull
  • Iron Age Pillar Figurines
  • Tel Dor, Phoenician Baal-as-Zeus Head
  • Ephesus, Cult Statue of Artemis
  • Rome, Fresco of Christ as Good Shepherd
  • Hazor, Standing Stones
  • Beer-Sheva, Horned Altar
  • Petra, Nabatean High-Place Altar
  • Tell Qasile, Philistine Temple
  • Arad, House Temple
  • Jerusalem Temple Depicted on Second Revolt Coin
  • Hebron, Machpelah Shrine
  • Mt. Gerizim, Samaritan Temple Site
  • Masada, Synagogue
  • Rome, Fresco of Early Eucharist Meal
  • Jerusalem, Church of Holy Sepulchre
  • Um er-Rasas, Jerusalem Mosaic
  • Jerusalem, "Mikveh" South of Temple Mount
  • Tel Dan, Incense Shovels
  • Beth-Shean, Ceramic Cult Stand with Serpents
  • Gilath, Ram with Goblets
  • Jerusalem, Ivory Pomegranate Scepter Head
  • Khorsabad, Palace "Cherub"

    BAS, 1991. 140 slides. 55-page caption booklet. ISBN 1-880317-31-1

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