Teaching Resources

This page contains handouts, lecture notes, and other resources from recent courses. Each link below will bring up a Word document or Power Point presentation. These links are for my students and are mainly meant to supplement material discussed in class. If you are not one of my students, feel free to use whatever you find useful.

OT Prophetic Literature:

• Chronology of the prophets (historical timeline of the prophetic movement)
• Rhetorical forms in the prophets (overview of several rhetorical forms and where they appear in the OT Prophetic Literature)
• Themes in the pre-exilic prophets (overview of important themes in the pre-exilic era)
• Plot structure in Jonah (first of two handouts dealing with the parallel panels in Jonah 1-2 & 3-4)
• Rhetorical structure of Jonah (second of two handouts dealing with the parallel panels in Jonah 1-2 & 3-4)
• Important events in the post-exilic period (timeline of several important post-exilic events)

Synoptic Gospels:

• Sample synopsis page (a three-column sample using the English text)
• Critical methodologies applied to the Synoptics (a chart showing the distinctive elements of historical, source, form, redaction, and narrative criticisms)
• Genealogies in Matthew and Luke (a look at the differences and similarities between the two passages)

Gospel of John

• John v. the Synoptics (a handout that points out several distinctive elements in the Fourth Gospel)
• “I Am” Statements in John (a handout that provides an overview of John’s predicated and unpredicated ego eimi statements)
• Aporias in the Fourth Gospel (a list of several texts often identified as untidy literary seams in John)
• Jewish Feasts in John (a list of the passages that take place during a Jewish festival)