The Bible
Posted at 1:30pm on Mar. 11, 2007 Church and state! Church and state!
By Jeff Emanuel
...or, "Using another primary source in the teaching of history."
Last week, Georgia’s Board of Education, by unanimous vote, preliminarily approved two new literature and culture classes for use in public schools beginning next year. Pending a 30-day comment period, the board is expected to give these courses final, official approval.
The difference between these new courses and others – and the reason why there will be controversy surrounding them – is that they involve the Bible.
Entitled “Literature and History of the Old Testament Era” and “Literature and History of the New Testament Era,” the classes involve the reading of the Bible as literature, not as a religious text, and are intended to provide cultural, historical, and literary education and context (not religious indoctrination) through the use of a text which contains ample amounts of all.
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