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Gravett, Emily O. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2015
This essay presents Moses, the protagonist of the biblical books of Exodus and Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible, as a playful but generative metaphor for current teaching practices and experiences in higher education, including my own. Among numerous similarities (such as the fact that Moses, other teachers, and I are all bound by context), the…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience
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Webster, Jane S.; Buckley, James J.; Jensen, Tim; Floyd-Thomas, Stacey – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2011
In October 2008 The American Academy of Religion published the findings of an eighteen month study (conducted with funding from the Teagle Foundation) on "The Religious Studies Major in a Post-9/11 World: New Challenges, New Opportunities." Re-published here, this AAR-Teagle White Paper provides the opportunity for four respondents to…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Religion, Foreign Countries, Religious Education
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Delamarter, Stephen; Gravett, Sandra L.; Ulrich, Daniel W.; Nysse, Richard W.; Polaski, Sandra Hack – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2011
In this edited transcript of a panel at the Society of Biblical Literature (November 23, 2009, Boston, Massachusetts), five Bible scholars give brief presentations on various challenges and opportunities encountered when teaching academic biblical studies courses online in both undergraduate and theological education contexts. Each presentation is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Biblical Literature, Online Courses, Theological Education
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Vaage, Leif E. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2007
The article begins with two brief theoretical descriptions of a pedagogy of desire vis-a-vis the Christian Bible. The first of these is a poem; the second summarizes the conversation constituted by four quite different books: the "Confessions" by Augustine of Hippo, "Freud & Philosophy" by Paul Ricoeur, "Pedagogy of…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Evaluation, Ethnography, Social Experience