The Pedagogy of the Pentateuch: The Undergraduate Classroom at a Large State University.

In response to the three questions suggested for this symposium on the pedagogy of the Pentateuch, I focus here less on what we teach and instead emphasize the values within our discipline. Students need to learn how to read the Bible as part of the humanities: as the work of thinkers who were refle...

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Publicado en:Teaching Theology & Religion Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 62 - 66
Autor principal: Levinson, Bernard M.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2025
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