Teaching Kids About Biblical Cultures

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of teaching children about Biblical cultures and the misconceptions they have.

Kids think everyone in Bible wore bathrobes and had beards. Also think they all lived same place same time doing same things. Tried teaching Biblical cultures last month. Total disaster mostly. Told kids Moses grew up Egypt not Israel. Blank stares. What's the difference? Egypt had pyramids. And pharaohs. That's about all they knew. Showed pictures Egyptian stuff. Fancy headdresses gold hieroglyphics. Kids way more interested mummies. Can we talk about mummies? No cannot talk mummies. Focusing on Moses. But Moses saw mummies right? Probably? Don't actually know. Maybe. Egypt had lots mummies. Lesson completely derailed into mummy discussion. Kids now think Moses lived with mummies. Close enough guess. Bible people ate fish bread grapes. Kids that's boring food. Also ate dates figs lentils. What's lentil? Small bean thing. Why didn't they eat pizza? Pizza didn't exist yet. Mind blown. World without pizza unimaginable apparently. Made unleavened bread in class. Flat cardboard crackers. Kids hated it. This is what they ate for Passover? When you're escaping slavery no time for bread rise. Kid said his mom's bread takes three hours bread machine. How Moses's mom make bread so fast…

People in this episode

Host: KidsMinistry.Blog

Topics covered

• Biblical cultures
• children's education
• Moses
• ancient food
• cultural misconceptions

Keywords

• Moses
• Egypt
• Israel
• Biblical cultures
• children's education
• Passover
• ancient food

Mentioned in this episode

Products: pizza, unleavened bread, birthday cake, bread

Places: Egypt, Israel, ancient Israel

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