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Lesson plan: Week 1

Religions of the Hebrew Bible

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MONDAY
Chat (and survey?)

Critical thinking          ✅ Overview of the course      ✅ Baseline essay                    ✅ Readings for Wednesday         ✅
 * What is critical thinking? What is critical thinking about the Hebrew Bible at a public university? How does it differ from religious thought?
 * Brainstorm (meaning of the term; assumptions for teaching Bible)
 * Discussion
 * Goals, competencies, learning outcomes
 * Schedule of assignments and readings (N.B. readings will be cut back)
 * Key points in handout version:
 * Absences. Binders. Books. Collaboration in teams
 * Social impact (~ service learning)
 * Tour of Niihka and Wikipedia course sites?
 * Due Monday, Feb. 2nd (though preferably this Wednesday :)    
 * 1-page essay governed by a suitable claim
 * At least one footnote and bibliographic reference
 * I Kings 4:25 and Coogan p.292 on Shishak
 * Jeremiah 36:1-4,32 and 39:1-10
 * Coogan. Ch 1. 3-10, Ch 2. 13-15 (Land), (*15-21), 21-25 (Boundaries, History), 27-9 (Archaeology)
 * Syllabus -- must read all the policies and bring questions or concerns to class

What is the Hebrew Bible?       '''Timelines! ' (time-permitting)  → Partially done and bumped to Wednesday''
 * Canon not book.  Ezra 7.6         ✅
 * Canonization. Apocrypha. Why is "Old Testament" less NPOV?
 * Divisions: Pentateuch/Torah, Prophets, and ….    ✅
 * Tanakh
 * Textual criticism
 * Septuagint.
 * Redaction criticism (Jer 36:1-4, 32)

Ezra as example
 * When does the narrative take place within the Bible? Biblical chronology and Anno Mundi
 * When was the narrative composed, according to scholars? Composition theories
 * When does the event take place, if ever, according to historians and archaeologists? Historical chronology
 * Terms. Anno Mundi. BCE. CE.

WEDNESDAY
Policies and other syllabus details. Q&A with students. ✅

'''Timelines! '''✅
 * Biblical chronology. When does the narrative take place within the Bible?
 * Composition timeline. When was the  narrative composed, according to scholars?
 * Historical chronology. When does the event take place, if ever, according to historians and archaeologists?
 * Box 2.1, p.23
 * Chronologies at back and in most chapters
 * Example: Ezra-Nehemiah
 * Example: 1 Kings 14:25

Places and maps  ✅ (a few terms not covered) Biblical texts and key concepts  Readings for Monday -- include how to read the schedule    ✅ Baseline essay    ✅ Lipson book     ✅ Handed out Wikipedia brochures     ✅
 * Terms to learn. Anno Mundi. BCE. CE. Cyrus cylinder. Exile. Ezra-Nehemiah.
 * Dates to memorize.
 * 722 BCE Assyria (around time of Hezekiah) 587 BCE Babylonians (Destruction). 538 BCE Persian (Return estimated), 333 BCE Greeks, 165 (Hasmoneans),
 * 70 CE Destruction of Temple by Romans
 * Dates might learn: 924 BCE Shishak, 63 BCE Roman control,  5th vs. 4th Century -- events vs. composition of Ezra (p.1661)
 * Current Middle East and Ancient Near East (ANE) . 2.1, p.15
 * Ancient Land of Israel. 2.3
 * Places to learn include: Levant. Mesopotamia. Canaan. Israel. Kingdom of Judah. Kingdom of Israel (Northern Kingdom). Assyria, Babylonia, Egypt, Persia.
 * Canonization. Canon. Jewish, Christian, Samaritan       ✅
 * Textual criticism -- studying the origin and versions of the text      ❌
 * Genesis 1 from BHS
 * Redaction criticism -- studying the editing process!
 * Jeremiah 36:1-4,32 and 39:1-10     ❌
 * Biblical chronology example ✅
 * When does historical evidence corroborate the Biblical narrative?   ✅
 * I Kings 4:25 and Coogan p.292 on Shishak
 * Ezra-Nehemiah and the Cyrus Cylinder
 * Genesis chapters 1-3, in conjunction with Coogan
 * (Coogan. Ch. 2, review if needed)
 * Coogan, Ch 3. 33-43, (*41-45) and learn some of the comparison with Enuma Elish for BWE
 * Wikipedia background reading, which might be useful for your baseline essay. Have fun!
 * Browse on your own and go behind the scenes. Might try "Community Portal" and various "Talk" pages.
 * Browse articles on Genesis, and key terms in Biblical studies
 * ? Hand out the booklets Evaluating Wikipedia and Editing Wikipedia
 * Questions
 * Sampling of ideas
 * Canonization. Are documents authorized? How and by whom?
 * See Coogan, 3 criteria. Wikipedia AfD process. Xfd. Policy, guidelines, consensus.
 * Canon. Are there multiple canons?
 * MT vs OT. Different languages or SImple English Wikipedia.
 * Textual criticism. Cf. versions of an article?
 * Composition. Cf. merging of articles, versions from competing reliable sources, etc.
 * Students shared their ideas, discussion of the class as a whole
 * Notetaking
 * Tip on skimming p.6
 * Paraphrasing
 * Citation

Teamwork experiment ❌
 * Groups more to allocate, share, and peer review ("critique") your individual work, rather than to collaborate in writing a document together
 * Groups are formed
 * Choose one (or both) of these options
 * F or the Baseline Essay due Monday, s hare your ideas by [choose a deadline for yourselves]
 * For Coogan reading due on Monday, s plit up note-taking and share notes (with those who did it) by [choose a deadline for yourselves]
 * Another goal?
 * Report on Monday about what worked and didn't work with your group

Bumped to week 2
These items were on the ideal lesson plan, but not covered in week 1. They may be covered in week 2 or dropped:


 * Jeremiah text as an example of redaction criticism


 * Textual criticism -- with example -- more needed?


 * Places not mentioned enough? Canaan. Israel. Kingdom of Judah. Kingdom of Israel (Northern Kingdom)


 * Example of a doublet (?)
 * Noah at 6:5-7 and 6:11-13