Lecture 1. The Gilgamesh epic -- lecture 2. Genesis : introduction to biblical study -- lecture 3. Exodus : toward the law -- lecture 4. Job and the problem of evil -- lecture 5. Isaiah : swords in plowshares -- lecture 6. Matthew : the new law -- lecture 7. Luke and Acts : from Jerusalem to Rome -- lecture 8. John : the unbroken net of scripture -- lecture 9. The Pauline tradition -- lecture 10. Revelation and the eschaton -- lecture 11. Augustine and the Christian self -- lecture 12. Meister Eckhart : from whom God hid nothing -- lecture 13. Justice and poetry : Dante's book of the dead -- lecture 14. Ugolino : Dante's last sympathetic sinner -- lecture 15. Cantos I and II of Purgatorio : typology and poetry -- lecture 16. Utopia : between Heaven and Earth -- lecture 17. Luther and the reformation -- lecture 18. Shakespeare : Measure for measure -- lecture 19. Milton : Paradise lost -- lecture 20. Hume, Swift, and the collapse of deism -- lecture 21. Kierkegaard's leap of faith -- lecture 22. Dostoyevsky's The idiot and the Book of revelation -- lecture 23. Nietzche and the death of God -- lecture 24. Joyce : from religion to art.