Test Your Knowledge on a Harvard Final Ancient Near East History Exam

The following final exam is from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations: Ancient Near East 105 (History of the Ancient Near East: The Levant up to Alexander the Great). The course number in this department is ANE 105 / Harvard Divinity School course HDS 1118.

The Professor for this course was Lawrence Stager (Lawrence E. Stager, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel and Director of Harvard’s Semitic Museum)



For those Christians who visit DC, see how many of the exam questions your pastor or your favorite apologist can answer.

Enjoy! (I hope you studied or you’re going to flunkout. Please note the time limits for each section!)

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