June 26 Readings and Assignments for Fifth Class (6/26/04)
Classical Legacy HUMA234
Professor Buesking
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Please read the following:
The Humanities in the Western Tradition:
Ideas and Aesthetics
Volume 2
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pp 95-125 Chapter 16, The Age of the Baroque in Literature, Art and Music
pp 127-145 Chapter 17, The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: Intellectual
Transformations
pp 147-165 Chapter 18, The Arts in the Age of Enlightenment
The Humanities in the Western Tradition:
Readings in Literature and Thought
Volume 2
 Chapter 12 Age of the Baroque
 3 Seventeenth-Century English Literature
 John Milton: Paradise Lost
 4 French Theater
 Moliere: Tartuffe
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Chapter 13 Intellectual Transformations: The Scientific Revolution and the Age of
Enlightenment
1 Critique of Authority
Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina and Dialogue Concerning the Two
Chief World Systems – Ptolemaic and Copernican
3 The Outlook of the Philosophes
Voltaire: A Plea for Tolerance and Reason (78-80)
4 Protection of Natural Rights
John Locke: Second Treatise on Government
Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence
5 Literature as Satire: Critique of European Society
Jonathon Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Also Read:
[Two copies of this text are on reserve in the Evangel University Library]
Metzger, Bruce M., An Introduction to the Apocrypha. Oxford University Press, NY, 1957.
Introduction: (pp 3-10)
A. The Meaning and Use of the Term “Apocrypha”
B. Growth of the Hebrew Canon
III
Tobit (pp 31-41)
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Judith (pp 43-53)
XI
Susanna (pp 107-113)
[Optional Reading: XVIII The Pervasive Influence of the Apocrypha (pp 205-238)]