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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THATCamp Pedagogy This Weekend (Picking My Feet Edition)

Posted on October 14, 2011 by anummabrooke

Have you ever been to Poughkeepsie? I’m on my way this morning to THATCamp Pedagogy (ProfHacker post), an unconference on teaching and learning as an aspect of digital humanities (THATCamp home). The unconference is in Poughkeepsie NY, and is sponsored by Vassar College. Besides the “unconference” sessions, there are planned “boot camps” on: integrating digital [...]

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Biblical Scholars: Care to be Interviewed?

Posted on September 20, 2011 by anummabrooke

I have assigned my “Introduction to Old Testament” students to interview a “real biblical scholar.” Students will collaboratively come up with questions for their interviews during October, and conduct their interviews by phone or Skype in early November. They will then write a report on their interview. Here is how I describe the report to [...]

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The Wise Man Built His House Upon a Rock (Biblical Hebrew)

Posted on July 5, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: I’ve worked into biblical Hebrew the children’s song, “The Wise Man Built His House upon a Rock.” I also plan “If You’re Happy and You Know It” and “Head Shoulders.” What other simple children’s songs, with good biblical vocabulary or communicative-learning pay-off, can you think of that might be put into biblical Hebrew?

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RBoC: Not-Yet-End-of-Term Edition

Posted on April 12, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: Busy, busy, so it’s RBoC for you.

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Teaching Carnival: Backstory (and New Carnival)

Posted on April 4, 2011 by anummabrooke

The newest Teaching Carnival (4.8), by Annie Vocature Bullock, is available! Linking to this edition of the Carnival, ProfHacker Jason B. Jones also fills us in on where it began, and how one can host or contribute to a Teaching Carnival. It is through the Teaching Carnival that I began to get to know most [...]

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Frequency Lists for NT Greek and Biblical Hebrew

Posted on March 10, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: I have created a pair of “frequency lists” for New Testament Greek and Biblical Hebrew: words are listed from most-frequent to least-frequent, according to parts of speech. To what sorts of uses might you put a frequency list?

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Maybe a Chip in My Head Like Spike Had

Posted on March 7, 2011 by anummabrooke

In the current incarnation of our academic calendar, Monday is Administrative Day. Classes don’t meet, and faculty all have our meetings. Instructors will know how this kind of thing gets written, via the weekly workings of the Hive Mind, into one’s DNA. No classes Monday. But this term, Elementary Greek meets Monday mornings at 8:30 [...]

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Stealth Students, or, Long-Fuse Effs

Posted on February 21, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: Profs, what is your practice with those students who are failing to turn in the work, but who keep showing up to class and taking—usually failing—quizzes and exams? The ones who never come to you to acknowledge that they aren’t handing in the assignments?

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Modern Israeli Music in Hebrew Class

Posted on February 18, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: a little Israeli rock with an indie aesthetic for the second-term Biblical Hebrew class: ladies and gentlemen, Rona Kenan.

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