User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 6

Lesson plan: Week 6. Religions of the Hebrew Bible. Return to the course page

Objectives for today

 * Understand Mendenhall. Review outlines and key points.
 * Allocate Mendenhall paraphrases and edits for article
 * Review academic claims about the historicity of the exodus and key features of Israelite religion (theology and ritual).

Reading for today

 * Coogan. Ch.12, 184-188 (Assyrian context w Dtr origins)
 * Coogan. Ch. 13, 196-198 (more on Dtr Hist)
 * Mendenhall
 * Carryover -- D in Coogan
 * skim Deut. chs. 4:44-49. 5; 6; 27-30
 * Coogan. Ch.12, skim (read 181-184 Deut. Code)

Review BRE

 * ANE shift (Marduk, Ba'al, J - Y - tetragrammaton) ✅
 * Exodus dating (Hyksos, Amarna letters Merneptah stele) ✅
 * Sandboxes ✅
 * Other Wiki issues

Discussion of the Coogan / JSB readings

 * Coogan on D / Dtr ✅
 * Sources, including covenant in D ✅
 * see worksheet

Mendenhall

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

Next class
Questions about assignment? User:ProfGray/Exercise Write Paragraphs

Objectives

 * Everyone has clear plan for 2 paragraphs (i.e., paraphrases of Mendenhall and Weinfeld)
 * Understanding of Mendenhall and Weinfeld

Weinfeld

 * Discuss his argument
 * Outlines

Test prep and plan

 * Next Monday = 100 points in-class test, see study sheet


 * Take-home essay(s) will be assigned on Monday and
 * Due Thursday at 7pm on Niihka > Assignments