{"id":1001,"date":"2010-08-31T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/israelites-at-war-video-game\/"},"modified":"2010-08-31T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:18:00","slug":"israelites-at-war-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/israelites-at-war-video-game.html","title":{"rendered":"Israelites at War Video Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softmmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/canaan.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.softmmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/canaan.jpg\" width=\"154\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I have been thinking about video games and education recently, and found myself wondering today whether there is a \u201cCall of Duty\u201d type of \u201cfirst person swordsman\u201d game depicting stories from the Biblical tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously that might need to be \u201cfirst person slingshotter\u201d for one of the stories.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, if there are games that might allow one to learn something about Biblical stories by playing them, much as one could learn something about World War II by playing first-person shooter games set against that background, I\u2019d be interested to hear about them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8991805155427006011?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking about video games and education recently, and found myself wondering today whether there is a \u201cCall of Duty\u201d type of \u201cfirst person swordsman\u201d game depicting stories from the Biblical tradition. 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