[H]is project does bring to the fore the question of what these terms—as classificatory labels—might have meant to the ancient authors who used them, and, perhaps more within our control, what they mean for scholars today. If our evidence seems to resist our current attempts at classification, perhaps we need to rethink how we are classifying.
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“I took this as an opportunity to think with my students about writing as a physical enterprise and text as material artifact. To accomplish this, I decided I would have my students make their own ostraca (sg. ostracon), or small sherds of inscribed pottery, in class."
Read MoreDivining Student Engagement: Studying Divination and Prophecy in the Classroom
Patrick Angiolillo describes his divination role-playing activity: “The students would be asked to develop their own forms of ritual divination, underscoring the concept that prophecy and divination were highly physical, calculated, lived experiences, and concretizing those aspects of the concept in practice.”
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