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Class Activity #1: Find a Book on Your Passage
- Search for books about the passage you will be writing about for your biblical interpretation paper. (If you don't have that passage available today, use this passage for today's class: Genesis 37: 1-10).
- Use the search box below to search for biblical commentaries on the book of the bible that contains your passage.
For example: Genesis commentary or Revelation commentary.
- Look for a book that was published after 2000, and is available in the Book Stacks. Take a photo of the call number.
- We will go to the lower level to find the book on the shelf and bring it back to the Classroom.
- Look up your biblical passage in the book that you found downstairs.
Class Activity #2: Using Online Bible Commentaries
- Find the chapter on your book of the Bible, then look up your passage in one of the following books:
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