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$\"\"$ I\u2019ve mentioned here before<\/a> the class activity \u00a0I use when teaching my course on the historical Jesus. I get students to bring M&Ms, and we re-enact the voting on sayings of Jesus undertaken by the Jesus Seminar. And we call ourselves the Jesus SeM&Minar.<\/p>\n

Keith Reich recently tried the activity in his class. Click through to see what sorts of results he got<\/a> \u2013 and chime in there, here, or both with your thoughts about this activity as a teaching tool about the approach of historians and scholars to the historical figure of Jesus. Feel free also to comment on which sayings or passages you think would work best \u2013 or less well \u2013 for an activity of this sort. And I\u2019d be interested to hear from everyone, including Keith, about whether it would be worth ordering actual red, pink, grey and black M&Ms from the company<\/a> for use the next time I teach this course.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"