The dominant reading of the book of Jonah—that the hapless prophet Jonah is a lesson in not trying to run away from God—oversimplifies a profoundly literary biblical text, argues Amy Erickson. Likewise, the more recent understanding of Jonah as satire is problematic in its own right, laden as it is with anti-Jewish undertones and the superimposition of a Christian worldview onto a Jewish text. How can we move away from these stale interpretations to recover the richness of meaning that belongs to this short but noteworthy book of the Bible? This Illuminations commentary delves into Jonah’s reception history in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts while also exploring its representations in visual arts, music, literature, and pop culture. After this thorough contextualization, Erickson provides a fresh translation and exegesis, paving the way for pastors and scholars to read and utilize the book of Jonah as the provocative, richly allusive, and theologically robust text that it is.
No one goes into pregnancy expecting to lose a child. Even when it happens, the event can feel so surreal a mother can wonder if she’s just woken from a terrible nightmare. In Pitter-Pat, author Amy Erickson offers a touching and often heartrending memoir about a mother trying to make sense of her life after the unexpected loss of her second child, Gabriel, who was born prematurely and who lived briefly before passing. Written in the form of letters to her lost son, it documents the events in Erickson’s life that transpired following her loss. The correspondence reinforces her deep and abiding love for Gabriel, her devotion to his memory, as well as her commitment to telling the world her son lived, he mattered, and he will always live on in heaven. Her depiction of her relationship with her first son, Julian, is equally touching, as this family of three tries in earnest to bring another child into their home. Pitter-Pat shares a raw, unfiltered, honest portrayal of what it means to grieve for a child, subtly addressing the pressures of society to heal quickly after loss, the difficulties in maintaining previous relationships in a world turned upside down, and the isolation and alienation grieving parents often feel. This memoir offers insight for any parent who has experienced the loss of a child or anyone seeking to better understand this journey of grief.
In Ephraim Radner, Hosean Wilderness, and the Church in the Post-Christendom West, Erickson offers an interpretation and constructive intervention of Ephraim Radner’s oeuvre through a theological interpretation of Hosea. She concludes that a poetic, eschatological posture should dictate the church’s shape today.
Self-regulation fuels students to become socially and emotionally engaged, lifelong learners. And just like mastering mathematics or language arts content, to develop strong self-regulation, students need ongoing practice opportunities. With this timely resource you'll gain 75 instructional activities to teach self-regulation in any secondary classroom. Ample teacher-tested tools and templates are also included to help you create authentic learning experiences and deliver effective feedback. Explore the four components for successful self-regulation--(1) plan, (2) monitor, (3) adjust, and (4) reflect. Develop students' planning abilities for both personal and academic goals. Guide students in adjusting plans when faced with obstacles. Study real-life scenarios of how to shift from regulating for students to coaching students to self-regulate. Review testimonials from teachers and students who have seen and experienced the positive results of self-regulation practices. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Understanding Self-Regulation Chapter 2: Making a Plan Chapter 3: Monitoring Your Plan and Progress Chapter 4: Adjusting Your Plan Chapter 5: Reflecting On Your Efforts and Outcomes Chapter 6: Putting It All Together Chapter 7: Measuring Growth in Self-Regulation Epilogue and Next Steps Appendix A: Situational Judgment Assessment Appendix B: Self-Regulation Questionnaire and Knowledge Test Appendix C: Student Templates References and Resources Index
This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.
The Skills That Matter aims to prepare middle and high school teachers to increase students’ intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies school-wide. This eight-chapter book presents competency-specific information and tools teachers can use to support middle and high school students’ development of six key intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies. Competencies covered in this book include self-regulation, goal-setting, self-efficacy, assertiveness, conflict management and networking.
Packed with easy-to-use, curriculum-enhancing activities to help you add pizzazz to your lessons every month. A great companion to our best-selling monthly book series. More than 24 creative reproducible activities and ideas. Focuses on Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Black History Month, and more!
Packed with easy-to-use, curriculum-enhancing activities to help you add pizzazz to your lessons every month. A great companion to our best-selling monthly book series. More than 24 creative reproducible activities and ideas.
This book provides the reader with a complete and concise introduction to rheumatic illness. While rheumatic disease often manifests itself in conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system, the authors stress that a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach is needed for diagnosis, to aid understanding of rheumatic disease with multisystem involve
Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope interprets the fundamental functions of spirituality through the theories and practices of hope and understanding the futuristic aspiration of new religious movements. The book portrays a neutral notion of hope that can be either religious or humanistic in the face of the suffering or despair of present reality. The concept of hope (or hopelessness) is demonstrated in each chapter under the global circumstance of health risk. Part One represents the various theories of hope in Christian history, ecology and climate, the Sabbath and surveillance, and the triune God. The insecure situation that creates the expectation of hope is demonstrated in Part Two, where the case studies of terrorist attacks, immigration, volunteering behavior, religious education, and medieval Islamic tradition indicate social unbalance. The last section illustrates the cultural anthropology of hope through the activities of different native new religious movements including the Moonies’ Unification movement, Yoruba Nigerian indigenous spirituality, and Cosmovisions of Sepik New Guinea. This book examines hope as a crucial element of human’s internal healing beyond medical technology.
Reinforce key literacy skills with this all new book that links popular children's literature with creative craft activities. Each unit is organized into sections with clear, step-by-step directions that make learning essential literacy skills fun and easy for you and your students.
Over Standards-Based Activities! The Transition Instruction Guide provides middle- and high-school teachers interesting and engaging activities and resources to help students reach their transition goals. Lessons include interactive activities using the community, family, and Internet resources to involve students in real-world situations. The Guide aligns instruction directly with the 57 Transition Skills identified with the Transition Planning Inventory¿Second Edition (TPI-2) or through any transition assessment. Instructional activities are organized in the broad areas of Working, Learning, and Living and include eight topics within these areas¿many linked to the Common Core State Standards. These links provide educators a means of achieving standards relevant to the school-to-adult-living transition process while connecting language arts and mathematics standards to real life.
This thesis discusses Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical adaptation of the novel that originated the story of Sweeney Todd in 1846, The String of Pearls. Sondheim's musical has been lastingly popular with its American audience despite the story's British roots, due in large part to the American innovation of the tale. Sondheim's Americanization emphasizes several themes, already staples of American culture as evidenced by trends in popular cultural artifacts such as Batman, which speak to American audiences and allow them to connect with the British story of Sweeney Todd. In Sondheim's transformation, the villainous Sweeney Todd becomes a complex lover, along with his companion characters, and he is driven to extremes by love and his deprivation of it. Sondheim also exploits the filthy Victorian setting of the story to relate directly to his immediate New York audience and underscore trends of corruption in its real-world judicial system, as well as that of the fictional London. This corruption becomes a problem Americans cannot stand to see unsolved, and Sweeney Todd transforms under Sondheim's hand into a vigilante hero the likes of the already beloved Dark Knight, highlighting an optimistic and essentially American skepticism of tragedy and belief in the power of individuals to effect change.
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