"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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Main Author: Gravett, Emily O. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: 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
Further subjects:B 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.
ISSN:1467-9647
Contains:Enthalten in: Teaching theology and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/teth.12276