Tag: Kings
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Prophet vs. King
I ask the groups to make two concept maps relating the following terms: The king, the prophet, God, the populace, the priestly establishment. One concept map was to show the ideal relationship between these groups. The other map was to show the relationship demonstrated in the biblical text. At this point in the semester they had learned that…
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Solomon
In their groups, they had to put together a movie pitch based on the biblical narrative of the life of Solomon. All movie options were open to them. They were told to decide: style of movie (drama, animated, modern adaptation, etc) market (children, adults) theme of movie (tragedy, comedy, etc) characterization (what’s Solomon like?) what elements of…
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David
In their groups, the students read the David & Bathsheba narrative. The groups made a sociogram based on the story. I asked them to note who the main character was, and then symbolize that relationship on the white boards. They connected them with dotted lines (for distance), double solid lines (for closeness), etc. We then discussed what they…
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United Monarchy
In their groups, the students read passages from 1 Samuel that read as in favor or against kingship. The students then had to develop a “tweetable” campaign slogan. We then went through each groups slogan and discussed what they were trying to capture in their slogan and why? The activity seemed to work well. They…
