Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Language Type Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
Mesopotamia Beliefs FDB 571 Turkish Compulsory 3 + 0 3.0 6.0
Prerequisite Courses
Course Level Graduate
Mode of delivery Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion, Presentation, Problem Solving, Seminar, Homework.
Course Coordinator Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BİLAL TOPRAK
Instructor(s)
Goals Learns the history of Mesopotamian religion.
Course Content Mesopotamian Beliefs, history and texts.
Learning Outcomes
# Öğrenme Kazanımı
1 Learns Mesopotamian beliefs.
2 Gains knowledge of Mesopotamian mythology.
3 Gains knowledge about Mesopotamian environmental religions.
Lesson Plan (Weekly Topics)
Week Topics/Applications Method
1. Week Introduction to Mesopotamian Beliefs: Archeology, Religion and Basic Concepts
2. Week Belief in the Neolithic Period: Göbekli Tepe
3. Week Belief in the Neolithic Period: Çatalhöyük
4. Week Ancient Mesopotamian History and Beliefs
5. Week The Sumerians: Writing, Religion, and Thought
6. Week Sumerian Mythology
7. Week Akkadian and Assyrian Beliefs
8. Week Midterm
9. Week Babylon: History and Faith
10. Week Babylon: Mythology and Cosmology
11. Week Mythology and Faith in Phoenicia, Ugarit, and Tedmur
12. Week Mesopotamian environmental beliefs: Egyptian and Hittite
13. Week Harran and Urfa Paganism
14. Week Reflections of Mesopotamian Religions to the Modern Period
*Midterm and final exam dates are not specified in the 14-week course operation plan. Midterm and final exam dates are held on the dates specified in the academic calendar with the decision of the University Senate.
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements DK1 DK2 DK3
Recommended Sources
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Diğer Kaynaklar
  • Babil Yaratılış Destanı, çev. Selim f. Adalı, Ali T. Görgü, İstabul, İş Bankası Yayınları, 2015. Bilal Toprak, Din Arkeolojisi ve Göbekli Tepe, İstanbul, MilelNihal, 2020. E. B. Banning, So Fair a House: Göbekli Tepe and the Identification of Temples in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East, Current Anthropology, 52/ 5, 2011, ss. 619-660. Elif Fatma Salihoğlu ve Deniz Demirarslan, Hitit Uygarlığında Büyük Tapınak Mimarisi ve Etkileri, Hitit Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 11/3, ss. 1761-1779. Gılgamış Destanı, Sait Maden, İstabul, İş Bankası Yayınları, 2019. Gordon Childe, Kendini Yaratan İnsan, çev. Filiz Ofluoğlu, İstanbul, Varlık Yayınları, 2010. Hakan Olgun, Ugarit Metinleri Çerçevesinde Baal Tapıcılığı ve İsrailoğulları’na Etkisi, Milel ve Nihal Dergisi, 11/2, 2014, ss. 7-34. Hakan Olgun, Hz. Musa’nın Yüzleştiği Statüko: Kadim Mısır’ın Ma’at Doktrini, Milel ve Nihal Dergisi, 15/2, 2018, ss. 149-169. Hélène Sader, The History and Archaeology of Phoenicia, Atlanta, SBL Press, 2019. Henrietta McCal, Mezopotamya Mitleri, çev. Bircan Baykara, Ankara, Phoenix, 2017. Jean Bottero, Mezopotamya: Yazı, Akıl ve Tanrılar, çev. Mehmet Emin Özcan, Ayten Er, Ankara, Dost Kitabevi, 2012. Jean Bottero, Samuel Noah Kramer, Mezopotamya Mitolojisi, çev. Alp tümertekin, İstabul, İş Bankası Yayınları, 2017.
ECTS credits and course workload
ECTS credits and course workload Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Sınavlar
Midterm 1 1 3 3
Homework 1 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Practice 14 3 42
Practice End-Of-Term 14 3 42
Classroom Activities 14 3 42
Total Workload 142
*AKTS = (Total Workload) / 25,5 ECTS Credit of the Course 6.0