國立政治大學96學年度第一學期近東文明期末考考題

1.Sources of the Western Tradition P12.(大意是神權統治)

  從以上文獻討論上古時代近東地區的政治思維，請舉例並順道說出你的想法(30%)

2.Akhenaten introduced a variety of innovations into Egyptian religion
  and culture. Aten worship was more stringently monotheistic than the
  evolving view of Amon had been. Whereas Theban Amon theology recognized
  other gods as aspects of Amon, Akhenaten recognized only the life-giving
  power of lights, embodied by the Aten.

  The notion of a creator god who existed outside time, nature, place,
  and kingship became ever more powerful in Second Temple Judaism, and
  would be taken up later by Christianity and Islam. So too would the
  Hebrew claim that Yahweh was a jealous god who would not permit his
  followers to worship any other divinity in any forms. In the context
  of the ancient world, both remained peculiar ideas that would not be
  fully absorbed for a millennium. But despite their peculiarity, the
  transcendental monotheism developed by the Hebrews would ultimately
  become a fundamental feature of the religious outlook of all Western
  civilization.


  (1)試以中文簡略寫出其大意(10%)

  (2)請敘述Akhenaten的新宗教跟猶太教產生的背景(15%)

  (3)請比較他們的異同，並且找出相關點(15%)


  3.上古時期有許多民族以農業立國，卻也有以貿易立國的海洋民族(thalassocracy)，
  並建立了所謂的SEA EMPIRE請舉出兩例海洋民族，並敘述他們對西方文明的影響。(30%)