本教材旨帮助学生获得西方文明起源的知识，对于大学生来讲，这是他们学习欧洲文化、文学及文明发展历史的核心知识和基础，有助于提升当今中国大学教育中的人文素质培养。从篇幅上来讲，全书按照16周的课程进行内容设计，共分20章。

Mark Buck 教授，剑桥大学毕业，现任北京科技大学外国语学院客座教授，教授古希腊圣经文化课程。

GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Unit 1 What Is Myth?
Unit 2 Shocking Behaviour
Unit 3 Supermen
Unit 4 Missions Impossible
Unit 5 Myth and Psychoanalysis
Unit 6 Women
Unit 7 Myth and History
Unit 8 The Remodeling of Myth
THE BIBLE
Unit 9 What Is the Bible?
THE OLD TESTAMENT
Unit 10 The Creation and the Fall
Unit 11 From Abraham to Moses
Unit 12 The Jews in the Promised Land
Unit 13 Exile
Unit 14 The Prophets
Unit 15 Wisdom Literature
THE NEW TESTAMENT
Unit 16 The Incarnation
Unit 17 The Ministry of Jesus
Unit 18 The Passion
Unit 19 Resurrection and Ascension
Unit 20 The Acts of the Apostles and the Ministry of St Paul
Concluding Remarks
Suggestions for Further Reading and Reference