Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Sharon Feiman-Nemser -- Cultivating curiosity about the t eaching of classical Jewish texts / Jon A. Levisohn and Susan P. Fendri ck -- A map of orientations to the teaching of Bible / Barry W. Holtz - - What are the orientations to the teaching of rabbinic literature? / J on A. Levisohn -- Teaching Talmudic hermeneutics using a semiotic model of law / Daniel Reifman -- Neusner, Brisk, and the Stam : significant methodologies for meaningful Talmud teaching and study / Michael Cherni ck -- The pedagogy of slowing down : teaching Talmud in a summer kollel / Jane Kanarek -- Serendipity and pedagogy : presenting the weekly Par ashah through rabbinic eyes / Carl M. Perkins -- Introducing the Bible : the comparative orientation in practice / Jon A. Levisohn -- Teaching ancient Jewish history : an experiment in engaged learning / Michael S atlow -- "A Judaism that does not hide" : curricular warrants for the t eaching of the documentary hypothesis in community Jewish high schools / Susan E. Tanchel -- Developing student awareness of the Talmud as an edited document : a pedagogy for the pluralistic Jewish day school / Je ffrey Spitzer -- A theory of havruta learning / Orit Kent -- "Torah tal k" : teaching Parashat ha-shavua to young children / Shira Horowitz -- Using the contextual orientation to facilitate the study of Bible with Generation X / Beth Cousens, Susan P. Fendrick, and Jeremy S. Morrison -- Academic study of the Talmud as a spiritual endeavor in rabbinic tra ining : delights and dangers / Jonah Chanan Steinberg -- Teaching rabbi nics as an ethical endeavor and teaching ethics as a rabbinic endeavor / Sarra Lev.