In my upper-division undergraduate course, “Early Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls” I wanted to emphasize the Dead Sea Scrolls’ larger Second Temple context, their diverse traditions, and the prerogatives of the Dead Sea Scroll community. As part of this endeavor, I created an assignment called the “Dead Sea Scrolls Brochure” that asked students to compose a sort of imaginary travel brochure meant to recruit people to join the community. ...Cross-file under Pedagogy.
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