User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 3

Lesson plan: Week 3. Religions of the Hebrew Bible. Return to the course page

Monday
Review worksheet

Brief reading exercise

JSB apparatus -- intro remarks Coogan ch.4 -- critical theory
 * How to find the author of the annotations? (margin notes)
 * Do the annotations reflect critical thinking?
 * Source critical notes. Example 2:4b-6 as J "earth and heaven"
 * ANE and comparative religion. 1:1, Nephilim as myth, 6:15
 * Literary criticism and intertextual info, example on p.15
 * Key concepts, e.g., covenant at 7:18
 * Religious analysis, e.g., Jewish interpretations (see Genesis 12)
 * Why? p.56: "the repetitions, the inconsistencies, and the contradictions"
 * Doublet examples.
 * Box 4.1 on p.53 God's POV and beastly pairs
 * JSB p.20 at 6:19-20 Levenson sees the pairs as a contradiction
 * WP example: Preparing the ark does not mention sources, yet Great Deluge section does.


 * Nuances or challenges
 * Additional sources besides 4
 * Hexateuch hypothesis
 * What led up to each of these sources? What is a source is not ancient but antiquarian?! (56)


 * Key terms and concepts
 * Form criticism is mentioned (57)
 * Creativity in combining the sources: redaction criticism
 * Linked sources: D and Dtr, P and Ezekiel

'''Coogan ch.5. A few key points'''
 * J issues
 * Humans loss of easy connection to the soil
 * Boundary-blurring: eat fruit to be like gods, sex with sons of God, and tower of Babel
 * Wicked people, Cain, Flood, Gen. 8:21 (evil inclination)


 * P issue: genealogies
 * Nations of the world (fyi Japhetic theory)

Agenda: 3:10 pm WP assignments: Now and next steps

Show and discuss proposed sentences -- i.e., gaps to be filled with Coogan (or JSB)

Questions about these steps?
 * Finish your Talk page and Sandbox edits -- show your Team your references, your proposed sentences, and in which article(s) the sentences could be added.
 * Step 5: Start talking! see the assignment
 * Step 6: Best if teams do a quick peer review. Is the paraphrase too close? Is the reference fine? Does it belong in the article?
 * Team coordination this week -- peer review
 * Team coordination for next week -- divide up the Wife-sister academic articles

Wednesday
Objectives for today: Handouts
 * 1) Quickly review the BRE from Monday. ✅
 * 2) Make progress on the Intro Edits exercise (for weeks 2-3). Let's make sure everyone can post in their Sandbox. For students who are almost finished and ready to edit an article -- let's aim to peer review these.  ✅
 * 3) Set up the Wife-Sister assignment. Go over the instructions. Circulate the articles. Time for team planning.  ✅
 * 4) Discuss your comparisons of the Wife-Sister narratives.     ✅
 * 5) If there's time, we will review Coogan.
 * Hand back the BREs
 * 2 Intro Edits exercise -- we will do this on laptops
 * 3 For Wife-sister assignment, handout the WP article and assignment (if printer working) and scholarly articles
 * 4. Wife-sister narratives
 * Questions about the Biblical texts
 * if time ==> read chapter 20:1-18, easier to act out, or 12:10-17 together. JSB on 20 is source critical, literary and intertextual
 * Discuss student comparisons
 * if time ==> read chapter 20:1-18, easier to act out, or 12:10-17 together. JSB on 20 is source critical, literary and intertextual
 * Discuss student comparisons

Readings and tasks for today were:
 * (Your work on the Intro Edits assignment)
 * Wife-sister narratives: Genesis ch. 12, ch. 20, and 26:1-11 (wife-sister)
 * Wikipedia (WP): Wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis
 * Familiarize yourself with related WP sections for Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Abimelech
 * Make a comparative table (etc.) of the 3 narratives