User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 4

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

Monday

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)

• 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?

Next week's readings, optional as marked:

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)