Hurray for Class Overlap

[debka_notion]

But would you really have expected that Nevi'im Rishonim (First Kings), talmud (ch. 10 of Masekhet- that's tractate- Pesakhim) (and also a bible trivia question that zodiacmg told me when he was here for his interview) would end up overlapping?

Also, it is far too late, and my brain is full of information about tzara'at, weak verbs, and idolatrous kings.

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[hotshot2000.livejournal.com]

Given that the only (Ta?)Na"Kh I know is from learning gemara . . . yes! :-)

(And I'm only exaggerating a little bit here, and if you remove the Ta, potentially not at all.)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Well, I presume you know the pieces that are haftarot too, no?

I'm quickly realizing that the one strength of the not-so-wonderful religious school that I attended was its bible curriculum: I finished Hebrew school at least knowing a good chunk of the classic stories from Genesis, a good chunk of the basic stories and plotlines from Nevi'im Rishonim, and a little bit about some of the other prophets, and some scattered other figures. In contrast, I was shocked when the fourth graders I was substitute teaching for last year didn't know who Ruth was...

[hotshot2000.livejournal.com]

"Well, I presume you know the pieces that are haftarot too, no?"

Pffffffffft . . . you know what happens you presume . . . ;-) (Although I do like the haftarah for Parashat Zachor, particularly the confrontation between Shmuel and Shaul in which it is unclear who rips whose garment.)

That sounds like an amazing amount of material for Hebrew school. My own spotty memories of Hebrew school involve a year of patchwork Jewish history (most of which I forgot except for some general outline, namely, "they killed us, we survived, let's eat") and some other things I'd rather not mention . . . At least I learned how to sound out Hebrew characters (with vowels) with some facility.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I learned to sound out Hebrew characters with vowels vaguely decently, but not all my classmates managed to learn this skill. I even learned a few words, but that's because I paid attention rather obsessively, and was awfully bored most of the time. The bible curriculum was spread over 2nd through 5th grades, then 6th grade was the rest of Jewish history from the destruction of the temple until World War 2. I didn't learn very much out of that year's experience. And then the 7th grade history curriculum was spent almost entirely on the holocaust, minus about a month at the end which was spent on Israel. It was quite absurd. But I did learn the story of David and Bathsheba a bit too well for a 4th grader.