Teaching Diverse Populations  EDG 2701 Unit I Lesson VI Origins of Teaching: The Christian Church and the "Religions of the Book" page 2

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Lesson Objectives The main objectives of this lesson are to introduce the students to the following topics and/or concepts: The Patriarchs and the Origins of Judaism Judaism The Written Law History of the Jews to ca 1500 Early Christianity How Did Christianity Originate? The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus The Bible and Christianity Origins of Christianity and Judaism What Can We Really Know About Jesus The Jesus Movement Solomon and Sheba North African Christianity Arab Slave Trade The Origins of Islam Early Islamic Scholarship Origins of the Koran What Is The Koran The Bible and the Koran The Prophet Muhammad Basic Beliefs of the Muslim Mahmud Of Ghazni Ibn Battuta Al Farabi Avicenna (Abn Ali Al Hosain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina) Abul Walid Mahommed Ibn Achmed, Ibn Mahommed Ibn Roschd (or Averroes) The Ghana Empire Africans in Islamic Spain China At the Millenium The Dark Ages The Medieval Worldview St. Augustine Augustine the African The Holy Roman Empire More Holy Roman Empire Scholasticism Pope Urban II The First Crusade The Second Crusade The Third and Fourth Crusade St. Dominic and the Dominicans St Francis and the Franciscans St. Anselm Peter Abelard St. Bernard St. Albertus Magnus St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio St. Thomas Aquinas Medieval Universities Oldest European Universities