ROME+FLEXAM+SHAHEEN+NOTES




 * There are 5-7 questions on art
 * A dozen questions on architecture
 * Religion questions-a ton of them
 * Spend a lot of time on religion-Huston Smith
 * Triumph of the West
 * Zeus
 * Comparable wars
 * Peloponnesian War-fought between Athens and Sparta (Greece)
 * Punic Wars-3 of them-Rome vs. Carthage
 * Second Punic war-know about Hannibal
 * Know who was involved in them
 * Compare Roman art to Greek art
 * Greeks idealized-perfection of humanity
 * Romans were more interested in realistic art
 * Art innovation questions
 * What Roman building do we see in America?-Answer: __Pantheon__
 * Look at the Pantheon: dome, coffers, oculus (hole in the top of the Pantheon), sphere, thinning of concrete, thick concrete, volcanic sand put in cement to make it water proof (pozzolana)
 * Know the thesis of Triumph of the West-Dangerous Gifts
 * What is the biggest imprint that the West has on the rest of the world- Answer: __Culture__- EXPORT OF THE WEST
 * Is it a good or bad thing that the West is a major influence?
 * The west believed in progress-movement of time
 * The guy in the Triumph of the West had a funny way of describing Christianity-compared to a parasite on a host
 * Exodus and the Rabbi are big sorces
 * Rabbi talked about science- no contradiction between God and science
 * We don’t know which came first-Shaheen used the analogy: turtles on top of each other
 * Did we create God or did God create us?
 * Relationship between science and religion: God helps us embrace that relationship
 * Exodus
 * Person who did the talking-Aviva Zornberg (could be spelled wrong)
 * Zornberg talks about myth: myth says anything in the world can happen, but the real value of myth is that it informs us of things that happen over and over again-redundancy
 * People dying for our sins/to save us…over and over again
 * In death, there is rebirth
 * Mr. Corbin talked about Art-arches: what things can you say about arches?
 * Arches: stronger, building blocks of domes, parts of vaults, aqueducts (they cost less/used less material, were built quickly with a wooden framework)-redundancy (used over and over)
 * Arches began to represent leaving and coming back from a journey—the journey was celebrated by building arches
 * Art found in Detroit—frescos (mural paintings)-Diego Rivera (Mexican painter)
 * Rabbi Cohen
 * What kind of a leader was Abraham?
 * Father of Judaism, part of Islam and Christianity
 * Spiritual leader
 * Selfless=ego-less/removing ego all together
 * It was the right thing to do
 * Moses
 * __Mosaic__- based on Moses/on the text
 * Moses was the first person to debate with God
 * God actually listens to people
 * When Moses first gets a message from God, he gets it in the form of a burning bush
 * Moses said that God made the wrong choice—that Moses wasn’t the right guy (not a people person)
 * God convinced him by giving Moses Aaron—Aaron did the talking for Moses
 * Exodus question-__Midrash__-Principal of investigating/asking questions/learning for myself
 * Exodus--make connections to how the Exodus story resurfaces—happened over and over
 * Other examples of this story that occurred in history: civil rights movement, Israel, and liberation theology
 * First five books of the Old Testament=Torah
 * New Testament starts with the birth of Jesus
 * This might not be on the test but Shaheen still mentioned that there were 4 Gospel writers that made it in: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
 * Gospel=works of/talks of
 * Trick question: What Jesus did
 * We know he was Jewish, but to what extent did he practice the Jewish faith?
 * Eric Travis
 * Power—power struggles that exist throughout Christianity
 * Major power struggle in Jesus’s time. Sadducees vs. Pharisees
 * Jesus didn’t like Sadducees-called them out
 * Jesus belonged to the Pharisees
 * Sadducees ran a temple
 * We believe that Jesus was a nonviolent person, but Jesus flipped out in a Sadducee temple. He started flipping over tables and stuff
 * How could a non-violent guy do this?
 * How big of a Pharisee was Jesus? How much of a lone wolf/outsider was he?
 * Sadducees were taxed so they could practice Judaism
 * Pharisees stayed true to their values: outsiders vs. insiders
 * An example of a Zealot was Judah Maccabee
 * He tried to kick Romans out
 * Essenes and Zealots were violent
 * Uprising in Jerusalem (70 or 74 AD-Shaheen forgot)
 * Romans tore down temple
 * Things began to change as a result of Pharisees taking over
 * Temple has never been rebuilt
 * Jews used to have lamb as sacrifice on holy days. They won’t eat it again until the temple is rebuilt
 * Jesus=apocalypse guy—said that the end of the world was at hand
 * How is he different than any other person?
 * The point is: he is in the tradition of other parts of the Jewish faith, but he’s going to influence the way people behave because they feared/embraced the end of the world.

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