HIS 111 Pre-read lecture

2.  Polytheist
 Pessimistic
 Over 3600 gods (duplication of gods
in various city-states)
 Enuma Elish a key religious text
 Epic of Gilgamesh also contains
religious elements
 Dismal afterlife

3. Goddess of rainstorms, 18th-17thc BCE,
Oriental Institute, Chicago
God of the four winds, 18th-17thcBCE,
Oriental Institute, Chicago

4. Khorsabad Palace, Neo-Assyrian Period (Sargon II),
Oriental Institute, Chicago

5. Votive, Priest?, Oriental Institute, Chicago

6.  Polytheist
 Optimistic
 Unified list of gods (like unified
political organization)
 Book of the Dead
 Mummies at British Museum
 Glorious afterlife

7. Oriental Institute, Chicago

8. Osiris, Hunefer Papyrus, British
Museum
Isis and Horus, Brooklyn Museum
Horus, Source
Unknown

9.  Monotheist
 Ethics
 Prophets
 The Tanakh
Sefer Torah, Cologne Germany, (Wikipedia
Commons)

10. ZOROASTRIANISM
 Monotheist
 Ahuramazda
 Dualist
 Ethics
 Zend Avesta
 Influential for early Christianity
Zoroastrian Tomb, Wikipedia Commons