ABSTRACT
Elsewhere in this book, we have explored the role of religion and the Bible in helping shape our educational imagination. Continuing with that theme, this time focusing on the Old Testament exclusively, our aim here is a bit more daring, and playful, in that the subject of the chapter is God himself through the purview of him2 as teacher. Focusing on God as teacher, “reducing” the Almighty to only one of his many facets, might appear troublingeven blasphemous-to some but, as we have indicated earlier, the main purpose of the Bible is educational-beginning with the education of a newly formed human race and then shifting to a more focused education of teaching the nation of Israel in the ways of the Lord.
