Engage your students in authentic, dynamic Bible study!
Your students can now explore the Bible as Jews have done for centuries – by pondering, personalizing, and wrestling with the text. Combining faithful but accessible translations with thematic connections between the narratives and student’s daily lives, critical-thinking exercises, and a sense of wonder, The Explorer’s Bible will help you transform your classroom into a lively Bible study group.
What’s New About The Explorer’s Bible?
- True-to-text translation retains the structure and tone of the Hebrew while providing students with comprehensible and age-appropriate language.
- Opportunities for students to participate in biblical dialogue by reviewing classic interpretations of text and creating midrashim of their own.
- Connections between text and core Jewish values help students to personalize the Bible’s lessons.
- Analyses of key Hebrew words and phrases allow students to connect intimately with biblical text.
- Contemporary design conveys the dignity of biblical text while engaging students with lush illustrations and more than fifty full-color photographs.
- Explanatory notes and connections to biblical archaeology bringing the text to life for students.
Contents:
- The Birth of the World
- Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden
- My Brother’s Keeper (Cain and Abel)
- The Man Who Walked with God (Noah)
- The Impossible Tower (Tower of Babel)
- Abraham Finds His Way
- Abraham Speaks Up (Sodom and Gomorrah)
- The Sacrifice (The Akedah)
- Rebecca’s Kindness
- Twins, Tricks, and Trouble (Jacob and Esau)
- Jacob’s Discovery (Jacob, Rachel, and Leah)
- Jacob’s Struggle (Jacob wrestles)
- The Dreamer (Joseph)
- Joseph’s Gift
- Joseph’s Forgiveness
- Baby Moses
- Moses Stands Before God
- Freedom and the Future (Plagues and the Exodus)
Author: Behrman House
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
Published: 04/24/2006
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780874417920
Language: English
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