The Wonders and Challenges of Bible Education

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Duration	20 hours
Total fee	Free
Mode of learning	Online
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Biblical figures play a central role in understanding the richness of the text and provide extraordinary educational opportunities for engaging students in meaningful discourse about its relevance for their lives. This course will focus on examining and analyzing Biblical characters, and give you access to different pedagogical techniques of teaching Bible in the classroom. We will learn about the challenges facing the Bible teacher today, as well as different philosophical, developmental, social, and psychological approaches to addressing those challenges. We will also learn different approaches to examining Biblical stories, including: exegetical, hermeneutic, historical, literary, and gender theory. We will examine and analyze the pedagogic skills to implement these different approaches inside the classroom. We?ll also cover analysis of different Biblical characters and stories, and hear from some experts in the field of Bible studies and Bible education.
Using this knowledge, you will gain skills to use inside the classroom, and be able to examine and analyze different educational programs that teach Bible in order to see which best suit your approach and educational setting. If you want to teach Bible, this course is a helpful guide and overview to different approaches and techniques for doing so.
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Students will appreciate challenges in teaching classical Jewish texts to school students
2. Students will acquire certain exegetical and literary skills to analyze selected Biblical passages.
3. Students will be exposed to a range of different approaches to presenting Biblical characters.
4. Students will examine a range of relevant developmental, social, and psychological theories that impact the teaching of the Bible.
5. Students will examine a range of educational programs that teach the Bible and will acquire tools to critically analyze these programs.
6. Students will produce a course project that will reflect their understanding of the various issues raised.

The Wonders and Challenges of Bible Education
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Curriculum

Welcome Module

Introduction to the course

About this course

Honor Code for the course

Learning Guide for the Course

Introductory Quiz: In this quiz, we want to inform you about the nature of the course, and to set expectations regarding the course. This quiz has no grade, but we would be happy to hear from you and about you before the course begins.

Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Bible Part I

1. Introduction

2. Analyzing the Biblical Images

3. Ed Goals & Analyzing Standards and Benchmarks

4. Educational messages & analyze 1 children's text (Jacob & Esau)

5. Summary of the lesson

Guide for Lesson One

A Map of Orientations to the Teaching of the Bible by Barry Holtz

Jacob and Esau 1

Jacob and Esau 2

The Bible as Literature

Lesson 1 (Please note that this section should only be filled out after you have completed all the other parts of this lesson, including the readings and the videos).

Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Bible Part II

1. Introduction to Lesson 2

2. Challenges in Teaching Classical Jewish texts

3. Children Talking to God

4. Analyzing Genesis 18- 1:15

5. Summary points

Guide for Lesson Two

Genesis 18, 1-15.

Lesson 2 (Please note that this section should only be filled out after you have completed all the other parts of this lesson, including the readings and the videos).

The Complex Nature of Biblical Characters and Educational Approaches to Presenting them Part I

1. Overview of the course to date

2.Types of characters

3. Literary tools for analyzing Biblical Characters

4. Reading II Samuel 6: 10

Guide for Lesson Three

Frisch, A. The Sins of the Patriarchs by Traditional Jewish Exegesis

Alter A. How Convention Helps Us Read: The Case of the Bible's Annunciation Type-Scene

Lesson 3 (Please note that this section should only be filled out after you have completed all the other parts of this lesson, including the readings and the videos).

The Complex Nature of Biblical Characters and Educational Approaches to Presenting them Part II

1. Historical, social and normative factors in presenting Biblical characters: overview of the class

2. Tosefta : Biblical texts that May be Translated into Aramaic

3. Dr. Deitcher about Frisch article

4. Approaches to presenting biblical characters

5. Analyzing Genesis 27 Part I

6. Analyzing Genesis 27 Part II

1. Summarizing the Life of a Biblical Character

2. Prof. Zakovitch interview

3. Summation: Educational process

Guide for Lesson Four

Biblical texts that May be Translated into Aramaic

The Sins of the Patriarchs as Viewed by Traditional Jewish Exegesis, by Amos Frisch.

Guide for Lesson Five

Trial of Abraham

Between Angels and Mortals

Lesson 4 (Please note that this section should only be filled out after you have completed all the other parts of this lesson, including the readings and the videos)

Lesson 5 (Please note that this section should only be filled out after you have completed all the other parts of this lesson, including the readings and the videos)

Examining the Moral Behavior of Biblical Characters as National Figures

1. Outline

2. Moral Education

3. Approaches to Moral Education

4. Paradigms of Inquiry (G. Matthews)

5. Lies in Biblical texts (Dr. H. Deitcher )

1. Overview: King David as a National Symbol

2. Story Components

3. Exposition Skills

4. Hats for Interpretation

5. David as a national symbol

6. David in Israeli Poetry

Guide for Lesson 6

Esther Chapter 10

Harvard talk on lies

Guide for Lesson Seven

1 Samuel 17

Lesson 6 (Please note that this section should only be filled out after you have completed all the other parts of this lesson, including the readings and the videos)

Lesson 7 (Please note that this section should only be filled out after you have completed all the other parts of this lesson, including the readings and the videos)

Preparing an Educational Project