I was brain-dead after school yesterday from the sleepless night before grading your DBQs all night. Plus some of my annotations didn't save to the Diigo server. So: the point of these readings are to get some answers to the basic questions we rose yesterday:
- What are some of the causes of the conflicts between Jews and Christians, Jews and Muslims, Christians and Muslims? You won't get much on the Islam part yet, but there's a lot in tonights readings that sheds light on the disagreements between Jews and Christians. (Remember Ishmael, though. That's one element of the Muslim-Jewish tension, among many, many more.)
- What are the main similarities and differences of these three monotheisms?
- Source, contextualize, corraborate, close read: how might historians "read" all of these texts? (This one requires a strong imagination and agile mind. It's also one of the most interesting questions in the world. Socrates would have loved it.)
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In class today we covered most of the Judaism readings. There are a few more for you to read (they're short). Be sure you're signed into Diigo before reading them. I've left question in sticky-notes for you to answer. Answer them by highlighting the passages on each page that you think give the answers or deserve mention, and leave brief sticky-notes explaining why you highlighted them. (That's probably 2 or 3 highlights per reading:
Next, go through the same highlighting/annotating about the following primary sources from the Christian scripture (the "New Testament"):
- Early Christianity
- The Christian Scriptures
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