Pt 1: disc. 1. lecture 1.; Talking about ancient religious cultures.; lecture 2.; What is religion?
; disc. 2. lecture 3.; Early prehistoric religion.; lecture 4.; Prehistoric religion : the Neolithic Era
; disc 3. lecture 5.; Egypt, a unique religious culture.; lecture 6.; Egyptian creation stories and their meaning
; disc 4. lecture 7.; The Egyptian pantheon.; lecture 8.; Egyptian myths of kingship
; disc 5. lecture 9.; Egyptian myths of the underworld.; lecture 10.; Egypt, the power of goddesses
; disc 6. lecture 11.; Egypt, religion in everyday life.; lecture 12.; Egypt, the beginning of wisdom.; pt. 2.: disc 7. lecture 13.; Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers.; lecture 14.; Mesopotamia, stories of creation
; disc 8. lecture 15.; Mesopotamia, Inanna the Goddess.; lecture 16.; Mesopotamia, Gilgamesh the King
; disc 9. lecture 17.; Mesopotamia, the search for eternal life.; lecture 18.; Mesopotamia, the great flood
; disc 10. lecture 19.; Ancient concepts of the divine.; lecture 20.; The gods of Syria-Palestine
; disc 11. lecture 21.; Israel's ancient history.; lecture 22.; Israel's national history
; disc 12. lecture 23.; Prophecy in the ancient near east.; lecture 24.; Early prophecy in Israel.; pt. 2: disc 13. lecture 25.; Classical Israelite prophecy.; lecture 26.; Israel's great crisis
; disc 14. lecture 27.; Syria-Palestine, the problem of evil.; lecture 28.; Early Aegean civilizations
; disc 15. lecture 29.; Religious culture in the Iliad and Odyssey.; lecture 30.; Religious culture in archaic Greece
; disc 16. lecture. 31.; Greece, how things came to be.; lecture 32.; Greece, the goddess
; disc 17. lecture 33.; The classical era in Greece.; lecture 34.; Greece, philosophy as religion
; disc 18. lecture 35.; Religious culture in the Hellenistic world.; lecture 36.; Mystery religions in the Hellenistic world.; pt. 4: disc 19. lecture 37.; Mystery religions from the East.; lecture 38.; Roman religious culture before the empire
; disc 20. lecture 39.; Rome, saviors and divine men. lecture 40.; Rome, divination, astrology, and magic
disc 21. lecture 41.; Rome, critics and charlatans.; lecture 42.; Jesus of Nazareth as a figure in history
; disc 22. lecture 43.; Creating Jesus communities.; lecture 44.; Living and dying for the God(s)
; disc 23. lecture 45.; Women's religious roles in the early empire.; lecture 46.; The Jesus movement in the Greco-Roman world
; disc 24. lecture 47. The death and rebirth of the old gods. lecture 48.; Conclusion : persisting ideas and yearnings
