Jeremy Thompson

Category: Teaching the Old Testament

  • Commercial for God – Doctrine of Retribution Abused (VFTTB)

    I just finished teaching through the Book of Proverbs in my Wisdom Literature class and thought I’d share this video.  It is exactly what the title of the post says a “commercial for God.”  Basically, these two girls read Proverbs 3:9-10 verbatim.  Just be careful because it might give you a sickening feel in your…

  • Pope Pius XII on the Importance of Textual Criticism

    I’ve posted on textual criticism for the past two days.  This will probably be the last post on the topic for a while.  Yesterday, I posted on video I used in attempting to show my students the importance of textual criticism.  I also used this quote from Pope Pius XII in Divino Afflante Spiritu to…

  • The song that might not be or the importance of textual criticism – (VFTTB)

    In my Wisdom Literature class, I’m taking the approach of tradition history.  We are trying to look at this corpus through each stage of development.  We started with textual criticism. At any rate, I can’t find the exact video I used, but this one will do.  To illustrate the importance of textual criticism, I told…

  • Interesting text criticial issues in Wisdom Literature

    A while back I posted asking if anyone knew of interesting text critical issues in the Wisdom Literature that I could use in my class.  I got no response other than Tim being surprised at how text critically inept we must be. At any rate, here are some of the texts that I ended up…

  • Interesting text critical issues in Wisdom Literature?

    In my Wisdom Literature class, we are talking about the transmission of the text of the Wisdom books.  We’ll work through some examples of text critical issues in class.  I have some examples already in mind, but I wanted to ask here: are there any interesting text critical issues that you have come across in…

  • Ezekiel Bread – Joke's on You (VFTTB)

    So, this is the third installment in my series on videos for teaching the Bible.  This was kind of a result me putting two and two together in my head.  And, it turned out to be a really good way to kick off my class on Ezekiel.  I think I got a real laugh out…

  • I'm a Mac, MyTouch, and Type Scenes (VFTTB)

    This is second post in my series on videos for teaching the Bible.  In my survey courses, I usually do a class session on how Biblical narrative works.  In that session I discuss type scenes.  Videos that I usually use are parodies.  I explain that parodies function by exploiting a type scene. An easy example…

  • Would you ever counsel someone to apply speed reading techniques to the Bible?

    I’m just wondering about this. In the class I’m teaching in the Spring, I’m requiring my students to read all of the wisdom books in their entirety, but I’m going to council them to skim some of the sections. For example, I will give them a section of sentence proverbs to read normally, but tell…

  • Sublime's "Rivers of Babylon" and Sanitization (Videos for Teaching the Bible)

    Nearly every time I mention on Twitter that I am going to be using a video in one of my classes it garners at least a little bit of interest.  So, I’m toying with the idea of starting a series on videos for teaching the Bible.  This would be meant primarily for teaching in academic…

  • Teaching the Bible: Practical strategies for classroom instruction

    I’ve used or adapted a couple of activities out of Teaching the Bible: Practical strategies for classroom instruction (free preview at Google Books) this semester.  And, I have to say that some of them have worked really well.  Yesterday, we used one of the activities on Proverbs where we constructed a set of proverbs as…