"Who Am I?": The Biblical Moses as a Metaphor for Teaching
This essay presents Moses, the protagonist of the biblical books of Exodus and Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible, as a playful but generative metaphor for current teaching practices and experiences in higher education, including my own. Among numerous similarities (such as the fact that Moses, other t...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Teaching theology and religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-169 |
IxTheo Classification: | AH Religious education FB Theological education HB Old Testament ZF Education |
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Hebrew Bible
B Higher Education B Intermediary B Metaphor B Moses B Teaching |
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Summary: | This essay presents Moses, the protagonist of the biblical books of Exodus and Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible, as a playful but generative metaphor for current teaching practices and experiences in higher education, including my own. Among numerous similarities (such as the fact that Moses, other teachers, and I are all bound by context), the most humbling insights come from Moses's role as a mediator or intermediary. It is a role that we also inhabit - standing, as it were, between our students and the knowledge of our discipline - and that we might consider further, particularly in terms of our responsibilities. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9647 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Teaching theology and religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/teth.12276 |