User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 4

Lesson plan: Week 4.' Religions of the Hebrew Bible. Return to the course page

Reading for today

 * From last week: Coogan. Ch. 6. 73-79 (Source criticism)
 * For today:         Coogan. Ch. 6. 89-92 (History and religion)

Objectives for today

 * Review Coogan
 * The sources for Genesis 12-50.
 * History or legend?
 * What do the texts reveal about Israelite religion?


 * Wife-sister exercise (for weeks 4-5). Everyone needs a proper citation, with info or claims in their Sandbox (to be paraphrased)

Coogan

 * Worksheet
 * Review Coogan
 * User:ProfGray/312/Key terms
 * Biblical texts + ancient history ==> early Israelite religion ?
 * (Time-permitting) Covenants and God's relationship with Israel
 * Threefold promise
 * Sacrifice
 * Circumcision

Wife-sister narratives

 * Questions about the Biblical texts
 * Team discussion of points from articles and allocate peer review (tell HG)
 * Thinking about the WP article

Readings for Wednesday
This is the syllabus schedule. Remember that optional items are marked *


 * Wife-sister narratives: Form criticism (e.g., Nicol)


 * Lot and his daughters (This includes: Genesis 19:30-38, JSB)


 * Coogan. Ch6, 79-83 (Form criticism). (* Genesis 32:22-32, Jacob wrestling)
 * Genesis 34 (Dinah)
 * Genesis 47:28 - 48:22; 50:15-26


 * (*Joseph narrative, Genesis ch. 37, 39:1 - 47:27)
 * (*Coogan. Ch6, 83-85, Joseph)

Wednesday
BRE and review. 20 minutes
 * Covenant

Coogan, incl.Form criticism 10 minutes
 * Example
 * Repetitions

Sources: competing not only diverse  10 minutes
 * Lot's daughters & Moab
 * Dinah
 * Joseph narrative?

WP exercises (3:10 pm) Next week's readings, optional as marked:
 * Grading
 * Teams and peer review
 * Progress with the wife-sister article
 * Citations. Paraphrases.
 * How would you present unrelated sources? Or competing sources?
 * What kind of point are you making? That is, under what sub-heading would you put your point?

JSB. Exodus skim chapters 1-4 (incl. Zipporah), (*5-12:28), 12:29-14 (exodus), 16:1-36 (manna and murmur), 17:8-16 (Amalek), 18:1-12 (Jethro)

Coogan. Ch. 7: 94f. (intro). Box 7.3 (Y name), *100ff. and *Box 7.5 (Passover). Coogan, Ch. 7. 105-108, 110-112 (Exodus history and religions)