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Unit 1: World Literature — A Christian Perspective
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Lesson 1: Ancient Epics and the Longing for Meaning
Ecclesiastes 3:11 | Primary Source: The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2100 BC) — Tablet XI, the Flood narrative
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Lesson 2: Greek Drama and the Problem of Human Nature
Romans 3:23 | Primary Source: Sophocles, Antigone (c. 441 BC) — Antigone's speech on divine law vs. human law
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Lesson 3: Roman Rhetoric and the Power of Persuasion
Colossians 4:6 | Primary Source: Cicero, First Oration Against Catiline (63 BC)
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Lesson 4: Medieval Literature and the Christian Imagination
Philippians 2:12-13 | Primary Source: Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I (c. 1308-1321)
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Lesson 5: Renaissance and Reformation Literature
John 8:32 | Primary Source: William Shakespeare, Hamlet — 'To be or not to be' soliloquy (c. 1600)
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Lesson 6: Modern World Literature and the Christian Response
Romans 1:20-22 | Primary Source: Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) — Ivan's 'Grand Inquisitor' parable
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