User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 5

Lesson plan: Week 5. Religions of the Hebrew Bible. Return to the course page

Reading for today

 * 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).  105-108, 110-112 (Exodus history and religions)

Objectives for today

 * Understand the narrative of the Book of Exodus
 * Review academic claims about the historicity of the exodus and key features of Israelite religion (theology and ritual).

Discussion of the readings

 * HB. Understand the role, message(s), and import (for Israelite religion) of the Book of Exodus esp. chapters 1-15 ✅
 * Shift from Genesis.
 * Joseph, dream divination (not entrails). ✅
 * Exodus. Prologue. Slavery. (see annotations p.99) ✅
 * Biblical theology --> ritual
 * Horeb theophany. God's names. Invoking ancestors. ✅
 * Sources. Jethro and Reuel. Horeb and Sinai. ✅
 * Sources. J/E primarily but see below ✅
 * Relations between Israelites and Non-Israelites --> Egypt, Midian. Amalek. ✅


 * Coogan
 * Sources ✅
 * Passover. Oklahoma! style… ✅
 * History or legend?
 * Silence on both ends
 * Historical memory > 3 reasons ✅
 * Date: Biblical chronology (15th C)? Hyksos (16th C)? Amarna letters (14th C) ✅
 * Date: Merneptah stele ✅
 * What do the texts reveal about Israelite religion? (110ff.)
 * Shift in ANE pantheons. Babylon (Enuma Elish), Ugaritic (storm god Baal), Exodus 6:2-3 reports the shift ✅
 * Other Biblical narratives (111) ✅
 * Does the book of Exodus itself know about this pantheon shift? Source P at 6:2-14 with self-reflective shift! (Box 7:3) ✅


 * User:ProfGray/312/Key terms

Wife-sister narratives

 * Wife-sister exercise (for weeks 4-5). Everyone should have a proposed edit on the article Talk page, based on a paraphrase of an academic source
 * Team discussion of points from articles and allocate peer review (tell HG)
 * Thinking about the WP article

Wednesday
JSB biblical passages
 * Manna, Amalek, Jethro (last class) ✅

Readings
This is the syllabus schedule due today:
 * Exodus 19:1 to 20:18 (Covenantal core)   ✅
 * Coogan. Ch.8, at least pp. 118-125 (covenant)   ✅
 * WP: Covenant (biblical), Mosaic covenant, and (this can be postponed a few days) Suzerainty


 * Deut. chs. 4:44-49. 5; 6; 27-30. Note: 5:5 (p.356), 5:7, and 5:19 annotations.  ❌
 * Coogan. Ch.12, skim (read 181-184 Deut. Code)     ❌

BRE
Quick review of BRE
 * Exodus historicity and dating ✅
 * Theology shift ✅

Wikipedia issues from worksheet & BRE ❌
 * Sandboxes

Covenant in Coogan and JSB

 * Covenants include: Noah, Abraham, Israel  ✅
 * Parity vs suzerainty (118) ✅
 * Elements of the treaty form ✅
 * Identification at Exodus 20:2  ✅
 * History, ditto  ✅
 * Stipulations, see Covenant code (chs.20-23)  ✅
 * Copies of the covenant  ✅
 * Witnesses ?  ✅
 * Blessings and curses
 * Meal to seal the deal (p.125, Exodus 24:11) -- see Ratification!  ✅


 * Promissory covenant -- which covenant?! (Coogan p.122)  ✅


 * Why do they "cut" a covenant?  ✅


 * The decalogue
 * Treaty form  ✅
 * Meaning. Relationship. Monotheistic? Image and name. ❌

Wife-sister narratives article
Discuss the subtopic of all student contributions of the scholarship
 * Which are connected, perhaps because they agree, disagree, or cover a similar subtopic?  ✅
 * What order should these contributions be placed in the article?

Re-order during class time, time-permitting ❌

Next week March 2-4
Remember that optional items are marked *
 * See syllabus schedule for Coogan pages (Niihka > Syllabus)
 * For Monday, read Mendenhall and for Wednesday, read Weinfeld.
 * Mendenhall 70-75 assumes basic sense of Israelite history, skim and do not fret!


 * Key terms: amphictyony (p.62 Mendenhall), Decalogue, Hittite, (stipulation), suzerainty, vassal

Assignment, see: User:ProfGray/Exercise Write Paragraphs