I'll get these videos embedded in the blog when the KHS internet is back up. For the first part of your journal prompts next week, choose one video to view, react and respond to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXyEcMG5bDs

This trailer (above) will give you a sense of the 1959 Movie that shaped a generation's impressions of the Ten Commandments and of Hebrew scripture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOqLpT6HKzY

search from this one for part 2 &3

These three clips (above) explains why the Ethiopian Orthodox claim to have custody of the ark of the covenant, the stone vessel in which the tablets of the ten commandments were stored, and why the ark is so important in Ethiopian churches.

Its not edited very well. The part we're interested in starts about 3 and a half minutes into the first video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYZ1GVnMT_s

This third trailer is a video collage of the Epiphany celebration in Ethiopia. It shows how replicas of the ark of the covenant are venerated. There is a short segment involving animal sacrifice. If you are likely to find this disturbing, cover or shut your eyes when you see the cow lying on the ground and count to 20 slowly before watching again.

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Welcome

Welcome to "A Year of Living Biblically." This blog is designed to be part of the class work for Kents Hill School's winter trimester Religious studies class. We'll be reading A.J. Jacob's "A Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.

This is not Mr. Jacob's first book. Several years ago he published "The Know-It-All" which documented his effort read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in one year. The guy does not limit himself to quick and easy projects.

What's the toughest project you've ever tried?