Turn it and Turn it Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts 9781618117700
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1. Cultivating Curiosity about the Teaching of Classical Jewish Texts
PART 1: Focus on Subject Matter
2. A Map of Orientations to the Teaching of Bible
3. What Are the Orientations to the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature?
4. Teaching Talmudic Hermeneutics Using a Semiotic Model of Law
5. Neusner, Brisk, and the Stam: Significant Methodologies for Meaningful Talmud Teaching and Study
PART 2: Focus on Teaching and Teachers
6. The Pedagogy of Slowing Down: Teaching Talmud in a Summer Kollel
7. Serendipity and Pedagogy: Presenting the Weekly Parashah through Rabbinic Eyes
8. Introducing the Bible: The Comparative Orientation in Practice
PART 3: Focus on Learning and Learners
9. Teaching Ancient Jewish History: An Experiment in Engaged Learning
10. “A Judaism That Does Not Hide”: Curricular Warrants for the Teaching of the Documentary Hypothesis in Community Jewish High Schools
11. Developing Student Awareness of the Talmud as an Edited Document: A Pedagogy for the Pluralistic Jewish Day School
12. A Theory of Havruta Learning
PART 4: Focus on Context
13. “Torah Talk”: Teaching Parashat Ha-shavua to Young Children
14. Using the Contextual Orientation to Facilitate the Study of Bible with Generation X
15. Academic Study of the Talmud as a Spiritual Endeavor in Rabbinic Training: Delights and Dangers
16. Teaching Rabbinics as an Ethical Endeavor and Teaching Ethics as a Rabbinic Endeavor
List of Contributors
Index of Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
General Index
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