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Introduction: Thoughts On The Text, Teachers, And Talmidim / Zev Garber -- Part I. Theory And Methodology -- The Contemporary Study Of Religion And The Academic Teaching Of Judaism / Charles Elliot Vernoff -- Jewish Literary Themes In The Teaching Of Judaica / S. Daniel Breslauer -- The Methodology Of Hebrew Language And Literature: Some Basic Needs / Albert T. Bilgray -- Part Ii. Some Classes In Curricula -- Choosing Among The Strands: Teaching Old Testament Survey To Undergraduates At A Secular University / Bruce Zuckerman -- Approaching The Text: The Study Of Midrash / Herbert W. Basser -- Text And Context In Halevi's Hesiqatni Tesuqati Le'el Hai / Harris Lenowitz -- Teaching Modern Hebrew Literature To American Undergraduates / Gilead Morahg -- Against The Stream? Teaching Religious Ethics In Modern America / Barry Jay Seltser -- Part Iii. Teaching Judaism To Non-jews: Class Studies -- Teaching The Intertestamental Period To Christian Students / Ellis Rivkin -- Theological Education And Christian-jewish Relations / Eugene J. Fisher -- Team Taught, In-class Dialogue: A Limited But Promising Method On Teaching Judaism / James F. Moore -- Part Iv. Innovation -- Not By Words Alone / Jo Milgrom -- Wrestling With Torah, God, And Self / Arthur Waskow -- Reflections On A New Integrated And Interdisciplinary Approach To Undergraduate Studies: Jewish And Western Civilizations / Steven Lowenstein, Joel E. Rembaum, David Stern. Edited By Zev Garber. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes.