Sentences with phrase «historical background readings»

Featuring clips from the film Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, along with lesson plans and historical background readings, this collection invites students to connect Aleichem's life to the larger transformation of traditional Jewish identity in late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century Eastern Europe.

Not exact matches

To read with accuracy, we must analyze the historical, cultural and linguistic background, and allow what is clear in Scripture to shed light on what is unclear.

Theodore was the first interpreter to insist that the Psalm must be read against its historical background.

Over the past twenty years or so, I have read, written, and taught a lot about the cultural and historical backgrounds of various Biblical texts.

To put it another way, while I'm more than sympathetic to Jonathan's desire to read Karen Ordahl Kupperman's book about early America before weighing in on The New World (I speak as one who read four different books about feudal Japan before writing my review of The Last Samurai a few years back), I think it's also essential to keep in mind the fact that most audiences who see the film will come to it with very little, if any, historical background, and that to a certain extent the film even asks to be read ahistorically.

I've also made a background knowledge reading and research piece to help students understand more of the historical background of the piece.

The guide provides instructional materials to help educators explore background information about the Holocaust, understand manifestations of historical and current day anti-Semitism around the world, delve into the moral themes of courage, justice and truth presented in the film and expand possibilities for young people to deepen their understanding of the film with reading, writing and other extension activities.

When we read the Bible, we should remain aware of the historical matrix, the cultural background, against which its events and its writing played out; for instance, the matrix of early Genesis is the rise of civilization in the Fertile Crescent.

Having said that, it is a fun read, although I wished that I had had a little more historical background to fill in the details as I read (background I have supplied for you in the sidebar!)

And on it goes from there, with Google Books enabling one to zero in on a primary source to resolve a particular point, or in the midst of reading a work of great specialization in a journal article, to gain greater context and background from a book providing a historical survey of the incident if only in a «preview» of a few pages.