When I finish markin the Isaiah essays I get to examine the last performances of texts from Genesis. Performing a text is a great way of assessing students on a synthetic task that is based on analytic groundwork.
Imagine if I’d been teaching Jonah and someone submitted this:
The story of Jonah from Corinth Baptist Church on Vimeo.
What comments would you suggest I make? In what ways is it a good performance? Where does it fail?
BTW there are no marks for the performance itself, i.e. was it a well-acted, filmed etc. only for how well the performance actually performs the Bible text. In the real thing a student would also submit a paper that supports their performance with exegetical evidence.
