• Uta Pohl-Patalong

Bibliolog

A Creative Access to the Bible
  • 1. Auflage
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seiten: 160
  • Sprache: Englisch
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"Bibliolog" is an approach to experience the Bible as alive and important for one's own life. A group, congregation or school class discovers biblical stories from within and interprets them by identifying with biblical characters and answering questions left unanswered by the text. Invented by North-American Jewish scholar Peter Pitzele, this approach has its roots in the Jewish tradition of Midrash. It is fascinating how quickly people - whether they have been socialized by the church or not - can be moved by biblical texts when they immediately experience how relevant they still are. Bibliolog has quickly spread across the German-speaking area and is now practiced in many different countries. The growing experience with this approach has led to the decision to offer this concise presentation to an English-speaking audience. Pohl-Patalong focuses on the basic form of Bibliolog, which can be performed in a short period of time and with groups of any size.

  • Deckblatt
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  • Titelseite
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  • Impressum
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  • Table of Contents
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  • Preface by Peter Pitzele
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  • Foreword: Development, content and usage of this book
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    1. Bibliolog – an introduction
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    • 1.1 Three examples of Bibliolog – an appetizer
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    • 1.2 The plot of Bibliolog
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    • 1.3 The conductor in a Bibliolog
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    • 1.4 Bibliolog and the contemporary religious situation
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    • 1.5 Roots and development of Bibliolog
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    • 1.6 Bibliolog and Bibliodrama
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    2. Practice of Bibliolog
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    • 2.1 Selecting a text
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    • 2.2 Preparing a Bibliolog
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    • 2.3 Roles in Bibliolog
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    • 2.4 Echoing
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    • 2.5 Interviewing
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    • 2.6 Prologue
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    • 2.7 Introduction
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    • 2.8 Epilogue
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    • 2.9 Continuing after a Bibliolog
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    • 2.10 Parameters and resources
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    • 2.11 Dealing with unexpected events and disturbances
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    3. Hermeneutical principles of Bibliolog
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    • 3.1 Access to biblical texts
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    • 3.2 The process of understanding
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    • 3.3 The ambiguity of biblical texts
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    • 3.4 The “black fire” as a limit to interpretation
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    • 3.5 The subjects of interpretation
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    • 3.6 Bibliolog and the deconstruction of gender roles
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    • 3.7 Questions addressed to the “classic sermon”
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    4. Bibliolog in different fields
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    • 4.1 “I sing and pray against my fears” Bibliolog at Sunday service (Cornelia Blum)
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    • 4.2 “Sometimes I would like to leave, just like he did!” Bibliolog in church groups (Andrea Marquardt)
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    • 4.3 “It’s kind of great that he just comes here and says, ‘Come along …’” Bibliolog in confirmation classes (Michael Ellendorff)
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    • 4.4 “Cool, now we’ll make the Bible become alive again” Bibliolog at Sunday school (Dorothea Kleele-Hartl)
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    • 4.5 “Is he crazy? – In the temple! What’s next?” Bibliolog in religious education (Ulrich Jung)
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    • 4.6 “I put on a nice dress, a white one …” Bibliolog in a retirement home (Sabrina Heinsdorff)
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    • 4.7 “Suddenly it was so sacred in here …!” Bibliolog in secular environments (Heike Helfrich-Brucksch)
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    • 4.8 “… these are stories for today!” Bibliolog in Jewish, secular and interreligious contexts (Iris Weiss)
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    • 4.9 “Because I want to show them that this is not the last word on our lives!” Discovering the Bible with colleagues from youth work (Rainer Brandt)
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    • 4.10 “To get out of the castle” Bibliolog and spiritual retreats (Andrea Schwarz)
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    • 4.11 “But I’m not a prophet” Bibliolog with prospective pastors (Martin Hoffmann)
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    • 4.12 “It’s good to know that Jesus cares about us” Bibliolog with curates in training (Friedrich Wagner)
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    • 4.13 “I’ve experienced and learned something” Bibliolog in adult education with nursery school teachers (Frank Muchlinsky)
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  • Epilogue by Peter and Susan Pitzele
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  • Further training and organization
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Prof. Dr. Uta Pohl-Patalong teaches practical theology at the university of Kiel.