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.
3. Approaches to Moral Education
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Identify moral values, standards and benchmarks in teaching Bible, literary skills to analyze selected Biblical passages., differentiate between different ways of teaching morality, Analyzing story components
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Examining the Moral Behavior of Biblical Characters as National Figures
This module consists of two lessons: In the first lesson, we will examine several approaches to wrestling with morally challenging texts, covering: 1. Different approaches to moral education 2. The paradigms of inquiry approach 3. How to relate to lies in Biblical texts. We will ask ourselves: How do these various approaches respond to the moral, ethical and educational challenges that present themselves as we study certain Biblical texts? In the second lesson, we will focus on King David as a national symbol. The three main topics will be: 1.Biblical Characters as national symbols: educational implications 2. Different hats of interpretations 3.Four different ways of presenting King David as a national symbol.
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Howard Deitcher
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