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 [Comment1] Ann: Is this too personal?
 * 4:4 The J and E Stories **
 * Goal **Students will learn that Israel and Judah produced parallel stories of their origins, each version of which emphasizes matters of particular concern to the people who produced it.
 *  1. **** Gain the attention of the learner: ** Remind the students of the story of Joseph’s being sold into slavery by his brothers. Read the two passages from Genesis: the one in which Reuben saves Joseph from death (37:21-22) and the one in which Judah saves him (37:26-27). Note the inconsistency
 *  2. **** Relevant past learning: **Summarize the differences between Israel and Judah identified in the previous lesson
 *  3. **** Present new material: **Explain that a careful reading of the Bible stories reveals that there are several different authors whose writings have been combined. Two of these are called J and E because their stories tend to refer to the character of God as YHWH and Elohim, respectively. J was an inhabitant of Judah, E of Israel.
 *  4. **** Provide for guided practice: **Connect the different versions of the Joseph story noted at the beginning of the lesson with the fact that J writes from a Judean perspective and E from an Israelite perspective. Read the J story of Jacob’s tricking Isaac into giving him Esau’s birthright and the E story of the golden calf. Discuss how each story reflects the particular interests of Judah and Israel.[Comment1]
 *  5. ****<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Provide for independent practice: **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Ask each student to write two accounts of a recent argument with a parent, friend, etc.: one account from the student’s point of view and a second account from the other’s point of view.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> Close the lesson: **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> Come together and share the stories, noting how the same event looks different for the perspectives of different participants. Connect this to the different versions of common historical origins composed by J and E. Note that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of J/E discrepancies.