| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 151 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies
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Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: I only want the piece which is in your mouth -- Torah of the belly: Rabbi Eliezer starves for a teacher -- The gates of wounded feelings: Rabbi Eliezer is banned -- Father! father! Israel's chariot and horseman!: the passing of Rabbi Eliezer. |
| Summary |
Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral Torah. The stories of R. Eliezer serve as teaching texts and models for reflection on the teacher/student relationship in the Jewish tradition and in contemporary culture, with special emphasis on the hevruta mode of Jewish learning, a collaborative process that invites the reader into a dialogue with teachers past and present. Susan Handelman considers how teacher/student relations sustain and renew the Jewish tradition, especially during troubled times. In her commentary on historical and contemporary educational practices, she asks a range of questions about teaching and learning: What is it that teachers do when they teach? How do knowledge, spirituality, and education relate? What might Jewish models of study and commentary say about how we teach and learn today? Handelman not only presents pedagogical issues that remain controversial in today's debates on education but she also brings the stories themselves to life. Through her readings, the stories beckon us to sit among the sages and be their students. -- from back cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eliezer ben Hyrcanus.
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Eliezer ben Hyrcanus. |
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Teacher-student relationships in rabbinical literature.
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Teacher-student relationships in rabbinical literature. |
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Teacher-student relationships -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Teacher-student relationships -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. |
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Jewish learning and scholarship.
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Jewish learning and scholarship. |
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Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
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Rabbinical literature. |
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Spiritual life -- Judaism.
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Spiritual life -- Judaism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Handelman, Susan A. Make yourself a teacher. Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2011 9780295991283 (DLC) 2011024354 (OCoLC)713189818 |
| ISBN |
9780295801780 (electronic book) |
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0295801786 (electronic book) |
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9780295991283 |
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0295991283 |
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9780295991290 |
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0295991291 |
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