Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Cultivating Curiosity about the Teaching of Classical Jewish Texts PART 1: Focus on Subject Matter 2. A Map of Orientations to the Teaching of Bible 3. What Are the Orientations to the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature? 4. Teaching Talmudic Hermeneutics Using a Semiotic Model of Law 5. Neusner, Brisk, and the Stam: Significant Methodologies for Meaningful Talmud Teaching and Study PART 2: Focus on Teaching and Teachers 6. The Pedagogy of Slowing Down: Teaching Talmud in a Summer Kollel 7. Serendipity and Pedagogy: Presenting the Weekly Parashah through Rabbinic Eyes 8. Introducing the Bible: The Comparative Orientation in Practice PART 3: Focus on Learning and Learners 9. Teaching Ancient Jewish History: An Experiment in Engaged Learning 10. “A Judaism That Does Not Hide”: Curricular Warrants for the Teaching of the Documentary Hypothesis in Community Jewish High Schools 11. Developing Student Awareness of the Talmud as an Edited Document: A Pedagogy for the Pluralistic Jewish Day School 12. A Theory of Havruta Learning PART 4: Focus on Context 13. “Torah Talk”: Teaching Parashat Ha-shavua to Young Children 14. Using the Contextual Orientation to Facilitate the Study of Bible with Generation X 15. Academic Study of the Talmud as a Spiritual Endeavor in Rabbinic Training: Delights and Dangers 16. Teaching Rabbinics as an Ethical Endeavor and Teaching Ethics as a Rabbinic Endeavor List of Contributors Index of Biblical and Rabbinic Sources General Index