Lessons 13-24 for Instructor’s Guide to An Archaeology of the Fall and Related Scriptures

Lessons 13-24 for Instructor’s Guide to An Archaeology of the Fall and Related Scriptures

by Razie Mah

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This is the second set of lessons for a course on An Archaeology of the Fall and related scriptures. I hope that you made it through the first set of lessons without incident. If you have questions, comments or corrections, please e-mail me at raziemah@reagan.com.

Quotes are occasionally used to group words for easier reading.

Table of Contents

Lesson 13: Chapter 5 of An Archaeology of the Fall

Lesson 14: Synthesizing Chapter 5 of An Archaeology of the Fall

Lesson 15: Chapter 6A and 6B of An Archaeology of the Fall

Lesson 16: Chapter 7 of An Archaeology of the Fall

Lesson 17: Optional Short Exercises for Chapter 7

Lesson 18: Chapter 8A of An Archaeology of the Fall Plus Review of Sura 5

Lesson 19: Chapter 8B of An Archaeology of the Fall

Lesson 20: Chapter 8C Sections 0170 through 0172 of A of F

Lesson 21: Chapter 8C Sections 0173 through 0183 of A of F

Lesson 22: Chapter 8D of An Archaeology of the Fall

Lesson 23: Chapter 9 Sections 197 through 208 of A of F

Lesson 24: Sections 209 through 217 A of F

Lesson 13: Chapter 5 of An Archaeology of the Fall

Section 0089

A2a: What is happening?

0272 The Lieutenant, what appears to be two imams, plus several soldiers arrive in four small boats. Once the dignitaries make it to the platform. The Professor announces that one of the two is the imam.

P1a-3: What is the meaning?

The show is about to start.

P1a-2: Who guarantees the meaning?

The scene is reported plainly. The literalness is the guarantee.

P1a-1: What is the message?

No one knows what is at stake. The Professor has to pretend that this all is normal.

NC3: Where is the speaker taking me?

0273 Arrival3a brings power players, the Lieutenant and the imam and translator2a, into relation with the potential situation of Jacob's (and the Professor's earlier) presentation1.

A2b: What do I feel about this place?

0274 More doubling comes to the fore. Jacob(Son) is the Professor's double. He appears competent and the Professor appears incompetent.

There are two imams with different dispositions, but their doubling is apparently resolved. One is the imam. The other is the translator.

The two imams are the Lieutenant's double.

The struggling soldiers are Sarah(Daughter)'s double. Just like Helen(Sarah), some of the soldiers can stand on their own and some cannot.

Section 0090

A2a: What is happening?

0275 Sarah(Daughter) joins Jacob(Son) as the Professor gives the imam and his translator a tour.

P1a-3: What is the meaning?

The Professor shows off the place to the imam and his translator. Sarah and Jacob attend.

The Professor's hypothesis is presented in short form.

0276 Sarah realizes that, if the artifacts from both sites date to the Ubaid, then the Professor's hypothesis is substantiated. The two sites cannot belong to the same habitat. They cowrie shells and the bitumen for the skull probably were traded.

Sarah also realizes that the Lieutenant and Mom are not with them.

P1a-2: Who guarantees the meaning?

0277 The Professor and the field of Archaeology guarantees one meaning. The imam and the translator belong to another field of knowing that guarantees another meaning.

P1a-1: What is the message?

0278 For this moment, the Professor is in charge. Does the Professor see that his hypothesis is substantiated already? What are the Lieutenant and Mom doing?

NC3: Where is the speaker taking me?

0279 Helen(Sarah)3a brings some sort of completion to the Professor's theory2a into relation with what Jacob is about to present1a.

A2b: What do I feel about this place?

0280 I see more doubling, where the word doubling means ambiguity and potential conflict, like two identical looking sumo wrestlers in contest. Doubling often indicates mimetic contagion. One party is not miming the double’s actions, both parties are miming the other’s desires. Mimetic contagion involves one imitating the desires of another". Doubling indicates danger.

Mom and the Lieutenant double against Mom's family. They also double for the two imams.

The substantiation of the Professor's theory doubles with what Jacob is about to say.

0281 At the same time, I wonder: If what the Professor says is correct then what can Jacob add to it with his presentation?

I recall what Jacob said in response to the Lieutenant's greeting.

Is the doubling like darkness and light or arriving without Sophia (wisdom) or arriving with Sophia (wisdom)?

Section 0091

A2a: What is happening?

0281 The tour group (the Professor, the imam and translator, Jacob and Sarah) return to the mess tent (the Lieutenant and Mom were there, talking). The Professor awkwardly tries to end the event (so Jacob does not present) but the imam says the show should go on. Jacob and Sarah prepare. Sarah has to watch Jacob hand talk and speak loud enough for everyone to hear.

P1a-3: What is the meaning?

A lot of conflicting signals are sent. The food says stay. The Professor's completed tour says go. Everything momentarily hangs in the balance.

P1a-2: Who guarantees the meaning?

The guarantee lies in the fact that the Professor cannot command the visitors to leave. The guarantee is the military power on the platform.

P1a-1: What is the message?

The Professor does not want Jacob to present.

NC3: Where is the speaker taking me?

A choice3a brings the inadequacy of the Professor's ideas and research2a into relation with the the potential correctness of the Professor's ideas and research1a.

A2b: What do I feel about this place?

The above relation seems to drive the doubling. Several choices led up to this moment. The Professor is correct, then why are his correct ideas and research consistently rendered inadequate? This has to be totally frustrating for the Professor.

Sections 0092 through 0094

A2a: What is happening?

0282 Jacob presents. Sarah translates his hand talk. All others are in audience.

P1a-3: What is the meaning?

0283 Jacob sets the scene. The question is the same as before. Jacob describes the economy of the Developed Neolithic. He labels this way of life: constrained complexity. Then, with the Ubaid, new social trends start that eventually lead to a very different way of life: unconstrained complexity.

P1a-2: Who guarantees the meaning?

Jacob(Keller) - the leader of the freak show - does. So far, the field of Archaeology also guarantees meaning.

P1a-1: What is the message?

0284 These two labels denote the change in the human Lebenswelt that started with the Ubaid.

NC3: Where is the speaker taking me?

0285 Jacob(Son)3a brings the change from constrained to unconstrained complexity2a into relation with potential explanations of the archaeology of southern Mesopotamia1a.

A2b: What do I feel about this place?

So far, I am not surprised.

Sections 0095 and 0096

A2a: What is happening?

0286 Jacob argues that any purely sociological explanation of this transition (from constrained to unconstrained complexity) cannot be fully adequate.

P1a-3: What is the meaning?

0287 Sociological explanations cover up human psychology and behaviors. After all, society consists of interacting individuals. Human interactive behavior cannot be ignored.

P1a-2: Who guarantees the meaning?

0288 Jacob(Son) brings another discipline into the picture. The Professor's explanation is economic; that is, sociological. Jacob's explanation will focus on behavior; that is biological and psychological.

P1a-1: What is the message?

0289