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The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
– William James

Well, I don’t know if I have created anything that will outlast me, or if I ever will, but it’s a worthy aspiration nonetheless. In any case, I’ve gathered together in one place things you may find of interest and value. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please contact me.

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Professional Information

A professional biography about me can be downloaded from this website:

• About > Adam Rose

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Lifelong Learning Courses

Course material (such as syllabi) for the following courses is available on or through this website:

• The Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 1 Autumn Tutorial
• The Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 2 Spring Tutorial
• The Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 3 Winter Tutorial
• The Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 4 Autumn Seminar

• “The Holy Trible”: Coordinated Readings from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an
• African-American Classics
• Apologies of Socrates and Gospels of Jesus
• Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 1
• Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 2
• Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 3
• Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 4
• Divine Epics [3]: The Qur’an and The Aeneid
• Freud on the Human Condition
• Shakespeare and His Others: Comparisons across Time and Space
• Why They Hate Us: Cinematic Visions of ‘The Other Side’

• The One-Day Hebrew Bible
• The One-Day New Testament
• The One-Day Qur’an

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Congregation Courses

Course material (such as syllabi) for the following courses is available on or through this website:

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Online Courses

Course material (such as syllabi) for the following courses is available on or through this website:

• African-American Classics
• Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 1
• Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 2
• Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 3
• Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 4
• God’s Gadfly: A Socratic Method Seminar on Socrates

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Undergraduate Courses

Course material (such as syllabi) for the following courses is available on or through this website:

• (Cinematic) Visions of Christ
• Great Ideas I
• Great Ideas II
• Introduction to Biblical and Qur’anic Conceptions of God
• Introduction to Ethics
• Primary Texts and Personal Empowerment

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Previous Lectures

Lecture material (such as audio recordings) for the following lectures is available on or through this website:

• “The Triple Pillar of the World Transformed into A Strumpet’s Fool”: Duty and Desire in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
• The Apology: Socrates’ Defense, Or the Gospel According to Plato
• Aeneas Gets an Epic: Virgil’s Aeneid and the Invention of the ‘Greco-Roman’ World
• Agent in Athens, Patient in Jerusalem: The Cosmic (Sense of) Self in Ancient Greek and Judaic Cultures
• Group Therapy with Great Books: On the Remaking of Adults through Lifelong Liberal Re-Education
• On the Cutting Room Floor: Books that Didn’t Make It into the Bible
• Self-Evident Truths? Origin Myths and the Founding of America
• Shakespeare’s ‘Letter to the Romans’: ‘Anti-Judaism’ (Not ‘Anti-Semitism’) in The Merchant of Venice
• Strategies for ‘Negro Advancement’: Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery vs. W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk
• The Many Meanings of Meekness; Or, Taking the ‘Uncle Tom’ Out of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• The State(s) of the Union: Evolving Notions of ‘Nation’ in America’s Founding Documents
• Words at War: Rhetoric as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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Finished Writings

The following writings are available on or through this website:

• A “Great Conversation” Model of University DEI: At the University of Chicago, for Example
• A Perfect Storm of Vitriol: A Review of Norman Finkelstein’s I’ll Burn that Bridge When I Get to It! (2023)
• Bronx Beauty Marries Londoner: An Oral History of the Courtship and Marriage of Jean Klein and Jack Rose
• Greeks Bearing Texts; Or, Whose Odyssey is it Anyway?
• Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’: Non-sense Not Nonsense
• Read, Think, Listen, Speak: A Guide for New Students
• The Truth of Muhammad al-Dura: A Response to James Fallows