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Teaching the Bible through popular culture and the arts

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Society of Biblical Lit, Nov 14, 2007 - Religion - 393 pages
This resource enables biblical studies instructors to facilitate engaging classroom experiences by drawing on the arts and popular culture. It offers brief overviews of hundreds of easily accessible examples of art, film, literature, music, and other media and outlines strategies for incorporating them effectively and concisely in the classroom. Although designed primarily for college and seminary courses on the Bible, the ideas can easily be adapted for classes such as Theology and Literature or Religion and Art as well as for nonacademic settings.
  

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Page 307 - This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — we know that we have what we asked of him.
Page 145 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 166 - And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Page 37 - But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 81 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 124 - I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Page 120 - Apocalypse is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and spatial insofar as it involves another, supernatural world...
Page 152 - This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.
Page 130 - I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

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JAIME CLARK-SOLES
JAIME CLARK-SOLES. Perkins School of Theology. Southern Methodist University. PO BOX 750133. Dallas, TX 75275. (214) 768-2027. jaimecs@mail.smu.edu ...
smu.edu/ theology/ people/ clark-soles/ c_scvfulll2007.pdf

About the author (2007)

Mark Roncace is Assistant Professor of Religion at Wingate University in Wingate, North Carolina, and author of Jeremiah, Zedekiah, and the Fall of Jerusalem (T&T Clark). Patrick Gray is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and author of Godly Fear: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Greco-Roman Critiques of Superstition (Society of Biblical Literature). They are the editors of Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction (Society of Biblical Literature).