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Bibliography

***Note: all books and reading assignments are optional and are provided as additional information for the student.

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Anderson, Gary. “The Exaltation of Adam and the Fall of Satan.” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 6. 1997 (105-134).

Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. The Dictionary of Global Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Awn, Peter J. Satan’s Tragedy and Redemption: Iblis in Sufi Psychology. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1983.

Beck, Peggy V., Anna Lee Walters, and Nia Francisco. The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life. Tsaile, Arizona: Dine College Bookstore/Press, 2002.

Bowker, John, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Brown, Raymond E., Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and Roland E. Murphy, ed. The Jerome Biblical Commentary. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 1968.

Buck, William, ed. Ramayana. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1949.

Charles, R.H., ed. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Charlesworth, James H., ed. Three Enoch (The Book of Enoch by Rabbi Ishmael the High Priest). The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. I: Apocalyptic Literature and testaments. New York: Doubleday, 1983.

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Danielou, Jean. The Angels and Their Mission. Allen, Texas: The Newman Press, 1953.

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Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough. New Jersey: Gramercy Books, 1981.

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Matt, Daniel C. The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism. Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 1997.

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Nigosian, S. A. The Zoroastrian Faith: Tradition & Modern Research. Quebec, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993.

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Schimmel, Annemarie. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

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Waite, A.E. The Holy Kabbalah: A Study of the Secret Tradition in Israel. Hertfordshire, England. 1996.

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Wilson, Ian. Stigmata: An Investigation into the Mysterious Appearance of Christ’s Wounds in Hundreds of People from Medieval Italy to Modern America. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.

Yarom, N. Body, Blood and Sexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of St. Francis’ Stigmata and Their Historical Context. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Introduction and Lord of the Rings I
Lesson 2: Lord of the Rings II
Lesson 3: The Matrix I: What is this movie trying to say?
Lesson 4: The Matrix II: Zion, Trinity, and Christ
Lesson 5: Star Wars: The Godfather of Archetype Films
Lesson 6: The Stigmata: Pains of Grace and Gnostic Scripture
Lesson 7: City of Angels: Angelology
Lesson 8: The Omen and The Prophecy: It’s the end of the world as we know it.
• References