Friday, August 24, 2018

Performing the eschatological banquet

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Performing Apocalyptic Texts: Teaching the Eschatological Banquet from the Dead Sea Scrolls (Shayna Sheinfeld).
Performing the banquet shifted their analysis from the realm of the academic into the realm of something that is socially functional, assisting with student thinking about the ancient texts as representative of real people and their actions and beliefs.
This is one of the essays in AJR's current pedagogy series.

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