ERIC Number: EJ1480876
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jan
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-1368-4868
EISSN: EISSN-1467-9647
Available Date: 2025-07-22
Learning Prophets by Writing Prophecies: Modeling Amos to Critique Today's Problems
Teaching Theology & Religion, v28 n1 p43-47 2025
This article presents a group assignment that introduces undergraduate students to the biblical prophets: their original context, their attentiveness to social issues, and the rhetorical methods they utilize. In the assignment, students compose a prophecy set in the modern day that is modeled on the book of Amos. Due to the collaborative nature of the assignment and the way that it is structured, students must work together to discover points of commonality among themselves. After determining their prophet's persona and context, the students engage in social criticism as they compose their prophecy. In this article, the assignment and corresponding lectures are explained, and selections from student prophecies are presented.
Descriptors: Assignments, Group Activities, Undergraduate Students, Biblical Literature, Social Problems, Cooperative Learning, Criticism, Prediction, Writing Assignments
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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