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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MultiMarkdown and Me

Posted on May 2, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: MultiMarkdown lets me write formatted documents, in a human-readable plain text, exportable either to *.html (for the Web) or to *.rtf (for word processing). Such a plain-text file will archive practically forever. This post is written in MultiMarkdown.

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The First Rule of Write Club is…

Posted on March 30, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: “…you do not talk about Write Club.” Claire P. Curtis at Chronicle.com describes her own productive and well-running writing group. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of Write Club?

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The Writing Process: An Interview with a Fourth Grader

Posted on March 22, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: In recent years, I have seen a sharp decrease in understanding about a writing process. Anecdotal evidence suggests a growing lack of familiarity with the benefits of a writing process. So now you understand why it is that, when my fourth grader, lying in bed and chatting before lights-out, began to talk about “the writing process,” I leapt for the laptop and began to record. Take ten minutes, and learn how it’s done.

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What’s (Not) Going On around Here?

Posted on October 24, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: I have in mind a short series of short posts on why I write in this space, what sorts of things get in the way, and what kinds of writing decisions make it worth while.

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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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Follow-up: Writing the Bible

Posted on March 31, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: Having my adult students add 350 words to an existing biblical narrative proved a tremendous success in terms of inspiring close readings of, and imaginative engagement with, the details of the text at hand.

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Needles in Haystacks

Posted on March 17, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: Research is hard.

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Write the Bible: Poetic Parallelism

Posted on March 11, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: In this exercise, introductory students in biblical Hebrew poetry learn parallelism by constructing it.

Filed under: Education, Old Testament, Poetics, Writing | Tagged: , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Mysteries of the Global Flood Revealed!

Posted on March 10, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: Follow-up on reference to a “mid-sixth century” “world wide flood” in King and Stager’s Life in Biblical Israel.

Filed under: Ancient Near East, Books & Reviews, Old Testament, Writing | Tagged: , , , , , | 6 Comments »

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