Biblical figures play a central role in understanding the richness of the text and provide extraordinary educational opportunities for engaging students in meaningful discourse about its relevance for their lives. This course will focus on examining and analyzing Biblical characters, and give you access to different pedagogical techniques of teaching Bible in the classroom. We will learn about the challenges facing the Bible teacher today, as well as different philosophical, developmental, social, and psychological approaches to addressing those challenges. We will also learn different approaches to examining Biblical stories, including: exegetical, hermeneutic, historical, literary, and gender theory. We will examine and analyze the pedagogic skills to implement these different approaches inside the classroom. We’ll also cover analysis of different Biblical characters and stories, and hear from some experts in the field of Bible studies and Bible education.
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The Wonders and Challenges of Bible Education
Hebrew University of JerusalemAbout this Course
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Explore the topic of children’s spirituality
Know how the different standards and educational messages can be used when planning a lesson
Analyze different approaches on how to present Biblical characters in order to understand how can be applied in the field.
To analyze different approaches on how to present moral education in order to understand how can be applied in the field of Teaching Bible
Skills you will gain
- Identify moral values
- standards and benchmarks in teaching Bible
- literary skills to analyze selected Biblical passages.
- differentiate between different ways of teaching morality
- Analyzing story components
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome Module
Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Bible Part I
Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Bible Part II
The Complex Nature of Biblical Characters and Educational Approaches to Presenting them Part I
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