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Lesson plan: Week 5. Religions of the Hebrew Bible. Return to the course page
Monday
[edit]Reading for today
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- HB. Understand the role, message(s), and import (for Israelite religion) of the Book of Exodus esp. chapters 1-15 Done
- Shift from Genesis.
- Joseph, dream divination (not entrails). Done
- Exodus. Prologue. Slavery. (see annotations p.99) Done
- Biblical theology --> ritual
- Horeb theophany. God's names. Invoking ancestors. Done
- Sources. Jethro and Reuel. Horeb and Sinai. Done
- Sources. J/E primarily but see below Done
- Relations between Israelites and Non-Israelites --> Egypt, Midian. Amalek. Done
- Coogan
- Sources Done
- Passover. Oklahoma! style… Done
- History or legend?
- Silence on both ends
- Historical memory > 3 reasons Done
- Date: Biblical chronology (15th C)? Hyksos (16th C)? Amarna letters (14th C) Done
- Date: Merneptah stele Done
- 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 Done
- Other Biblical narratives (111) Done
- Does the book of Exodus itself know about this pantheon shift? Source P at 6:2-14 with self-reflective shift! (Box 7:3) Done
Wife-sister narratives
[edit]- 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
[edit]JSB biblical passages
- Manna, Amalek, Jethro (last class) Done
Readings
[edit]This is the syllabus schedule due today:
- Exodus 19:1 to 20:18 (Covenantal core) Done
- Coogan. Ch.8, at least pp. 118-125 (covenant) Done
- WP: Covenant (biblical), Mosaic covenant, and (this can be postponed a few days) Suzerainty#Ancient
- Deut. chs. 4:44-49. 5; 6; 27-30. Note: 5:5 (p.356), 5:7, and 5:19 annotations. Not done
- Coogan. Ch.12, skim (read 181-184 Deut. Code) Not done
BRE
[edit]Quick review of BRE
- Exodus historicity and dating Done
- Theology shift Done
Wikipedia issues from worksheet & BRE Not done
- Sandboxes
Covenant in Coogan and JSB
[edit]- Covenants include: Noah, Abraham, Israel Done
- Parity vs suzerainty (118) Done
- Elements of the treaty form Done
- Identification at Exodus 20:2 Done
- History, ditto Done
- Stipulations, see Covenant code (chs.20-23) Done
- Copies of the covenant Done
- Witnesses ? Done
- Blessings and curses
- Meal to seal the deal (p.125, Exodus 24:11) -- see Ratification! Done
- Promissory covenant -- which covenant?! (Coogan p.122) Done
- Why do they "cut" a covenant? Done
- The decalogue
- Treaty form Done
- Meaning. Relationship. Monotheistic? Image and name. Not done
Wife-sister narratives article
[edit]Discuss the subtopic of all student contributions of the scholarship
- Which are connected, perhaps because they agree, disagree, or cover a similar subtopic? Done
- What order should these contributions be placed in the article?
Re-order during class time, time-permitting Not done
Next week March 2-4
[edit]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