The Exegetical Thesis as (Digital) Storytelling

Posted on January 30, 2012 by anummabrooke

The “exegesis project” is a The Big Project for masters students in a biblical studies course. Usually, it’s a paper, of course. This term, I hope to encourage students in my “Book of Daniel” to consider doing the project in the form of “Digital Storytelling.” I realize that this calls for a two-part explanation: What [...]

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Just Leave the Mandrakes on the Dresser

Posted on January 24, 2011 by anummabrooke

How is it that the explicitness of Leah’s language in Genesis 30:16 has not jumped out at me before? Speaking to Jacob: ‏ותאמר אלי תבוא כי שכר שכרתיך בדודאי בני “And she said, ‘Come to me, for I have totally hired you out with my son’s mandrakes.’” Jacob seems okay with being pimped out to [...]

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Little Help: The Old Testament in the New Testament

Posted on July 29, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: Do you have any favorite resources concerning allusion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament? And if so, what makes them good?

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Open Access Intro to OT

Posted on July 24, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: toward a particular kind of open-access Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).

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“Genius!” “Dancing!”

Posted on July 1, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: What would your entry look like for the “Dance Your Ph.D. interpretive dance video contest”? Here is mine.

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Discussion: Trible’s Tasmanian Tigers

Posted on June 14, 2010 by anummabrooke

(With its two companion posts, this is a discussion exercise for some of my students, while our course management system undergoes an untimely upgrade. Other readers may choose to chime in, but please let the students “own the space,” and remember that I’ll delete off-topic or disrespectful comments and replies. This post will only accept [...]

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Discussion: Gunkel’s Gray Wolves

Posted on June 14, 2010 by anummabrooke

(With its two companion posts, this is a discussion exercise for some of my students, while our course management system undergoes an untimely upgrade. Other readers may choose to chime in, but please let the students “own the space,” and remember that I’ll delete off-topic or disrespectful comments and replies. This post will only accept [...]

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Discussion: Wellhausen’s Wildcats

Posted on June 14, 2010 by anummabrooke

(With its two companion posts, this is a discussion exercise for some of my students, while our course management system undergoes an untimely upgrade. Other readers may choose to chime in, but please let the students “own the space,” and remember that I’ll delete off-topic or disrespectful comments and replies. This post will only accept [...]

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Little Help? Song of Songs Resources

Posted on June 3, 2010 by anummabrooke

Can any of my readers offer some favorite resources on the Song of Songs? Critical commentaries, essays in books, journal articles, entries from Bible dictionaries/encyclopedias? Ultimately, my interest will be in the “I am black and beautiful” bit and also the eroticism of Song of Songs. But, at this stage, I’m interested in any of [...]

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Fifty Years

Posted on May 14, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: To what course work do these fifty-year seminary alums attribute some of their most important preparation for ministry? Read and see (*cough*…Bible… *cough*).

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