User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 5

Lesson plan: Week 5. Religions of the Hebrew Bible. Return to the course page

Monday

Reading for today

• Exodus skim chapters 1-4 (incl. Zipporah), (*5-12:28), 12:29-14 (exodus), 16:1-36 (manna and murmur), 17:8-16 (Amalek), 18:1-12 (Jethro)
• Coogan. Ch. 7: 94f. (intro). Box 7.3 (Y name), *100ff. and *Box 7.5 (Passover). 105-108, 110-112 (Exodus history and religions)

Objectives for today

• Understand the narrative of the Book of Exodus
• Review academic claims about the historicity of the exodus and key features of Israelite religion (theology and ritual).

Discussion of the readings

• HB. Understand the role, message(s), and import (for Israelite religion) of the Book of Exodus esp. chapters 1-15  Done
• Shift from Genesis.

• Joseph, dream divination (not entrails).  Done
• Exodus. Prologue. Slavery. (see annotations p.99)  Done

• Biblical theology --> ritual

• Horeb theophany. God's names. Invoking ancestors.  Done
• Sources. Jethro and Reuel. Horeb and Sinai.  Done
• Sources. J/E primarily but see below  Done

• Relations between Israelites and Non-Israelites --> Egypt, Midian. Amalek.  Done

• Coogan

• Sources  Done
• Passover. Oklahoma! style…  Done
• History or legend?

• Silence on both ends
• Historical memory > 3 reasons  Done
• Date: Biblical chronology (15th C)? Hyksos (16th C)? Amarna letters (14th C)  Done
• Date: Merneptah stele  Done

• What do the texts reveal about Israelite religion? (110ff.)

• Shift in ANE pantheons. Babylon (Enuma Elish), Ugaritic (storm god Baal), Exodus 6:2-3 reports the shift  Done
• Other Biblical narratives (111)  Done
• Does the book of Exodus itself know about this pantheon shift? Source P at 6:2-14 with self-reflective shift! (Box 7:3)  Done

• User:ProfGray/312/Key terms

Wife-sister narratives

• Wife-sister exercise (for weeks 4-5). Everyone should have a proposed edit on the article Talk page, based on a paraphrase of an academic source

• Team discussion of points from articles and allocate peer review (tell HG)
• Thinking about the WP article

Wednesday

JSB biblical passages

• Manna, Amalek, Jethro (last class)  Done

Readings

This is the syllabus schedule due today:

• Exodus 19:1 to 20:18 (Covenantal core)  Done
• Coogan. Ch.8, at least pp. 118-125 (covenant)  Done
• WP: Covenant (biblical), Mosaic covenant, and (this can be postponed a few days) Suzerainty#Ancient

• Deut. chs. 4:44-49. 5; 6; 27-30. Note: 5:5 (p.356), 5:7, and 5:19 annotations.  Not done
• Coogan. Ch.12, skim (read 181-184 Deut. Code)  Not done

BRE

Quick review of BRE

• Exodus historicity and dating  Done
• Theology shift  Done

Wikipedia issues from worksheet & BRE  Not done

• Sandboxes

Covenant in Coogan and JSB

• Covenants include: Noah, Abraham, Israel  Done
• Parity vs suzerainty (118)  Done
• Elements of the treaty form  Done

1. Identification at Exodus 20:2  Done
2. History, ditto  Done
3. Stipulations, see Covenant code (chs.20-23)  Done
4. Copies of the covenant  Done
5. Witnesses ?  Done
6. Blessings and curses
7. Meal to seal the deal (p.125, Exodus 24:11) -- see Ratification!  Done

• Promissory covenant -- which covenant?! (Coogan p.122)  Done

• Why do they "cut" a covenant?  Done

• The decalogue

• Treaty form  Done
• Meaning. Relationship. Monotheistic? Image and name.  Not done

Wife-sister narratives article

Discuss the subtopic of all student contributions of the scholarship

• Which are connected, perhaps because they agree, disagree, or cover a similar subtopic?  Done
• What order should these contributions be placed in the article?

Re-order during class time, time-permitting  Not done

Next week March 2-4

Remember that optional items are marked *

• See syllabus schedule for Coogan pages (Niihka > Syllabus)
• For Monday, read Mendenhall and for Wednesday, read Weinfeld.

• Mendenhall 70-75 assumes basic sense of Israelite history, skim and do not fret!

• Key terms: amphictyony (p.62 Mendenhall), Decalogue, Hittite, (stipulation), suzerainty, vassal

Assignment, see: User:ProfGray/Exercise Write Paragraphs