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Teaching the Bible through Popular Culture and the Arts

by Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray

Published 17 September 2008

This resource enables biblical studies instructors to facilitate engaging classroom experiences by drawing on the arts and popular culture. It offers brief overviews of hundreds of easily accessible examples of art, film, literature, music, and other media and outlines strategies for incorporating them effectively and concisely in the classroom. Although designed primarily for college and seminary courses on the Bible, the ideas can easily be adapted for classes such as "Theology and Literature" or "Religion and Art" as well as for nonacademic settings. This compilation is an invaluable resource for anyone who teaches the Bible.

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)