THEATER/FILM PROJECT IDEAS: Pick one of these Bible scenes and write the dialogue for your friends to act out on stage or in an iMovie. Or write a song that tells the story! We'll post your scene here!
Man and woman are created in the two different versions that appear in Genesis.
Eve is tempted by the Serpent.
Adam and Eve are expelled from The Garden of Eden.
Cain kills Abel.
Noah is told that God is disgusted with the world and how to prepare for The Flood.
God tells Abraham he will make of him a great nation and to go forth.
Abraham tells Hagar she has to leave with their son, Ishmael.
Sarah overhears that she's going to get pregnant at 99 and she laughs.
Abraham takes Isaac up to Mount Moriah to kill him.
Abraham binds and prepares to kill his son, only to be stopped by an angel.
Abraham argues with God about sparing some of the "righteous" people in Sodom and Gemorrah.
Lot is givien a chance to escape with his family.
Lot's wife looks back.
Abraham's servant goes looking for a wife for Isaac.
Jacob and Rebecca trick Isaac.
Esau confronts Jacob about stealing his birthright.
Jacob wrestles with the angel.
Esau forgives Jacob when they meet after decades apart.
Jacob falls in love with Rachel.
Laban tricks Jacob into marrying Leah.
Leah realizes Jacob will never love her even though they've made children together.
Laban tells Jacob he has to work another 7 years to earn Rachel's hand (after already working 7.)
Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin after years of infertility.
Jacob gives a special multicolored coat to his favorite son, Joseph.
Joseph's brothers discuss how to get rid of Joseph.
Joseph goes to work for Potiphar, whose wife wants to make whoopee with Joseph.
Joseph is thrown in jail and meets Pharaoh's baker and butler, interprets their dreams.
Joseph is summoned by Pharaoh to interpret Pharaoh's dreams.
Joseph's brothers come to Egypt during the famine, in need of food.
Joseph hides the goblet to frame Benjamin and test his brothers.
Baby Moses is put into the basket down the Nile River, and discovered by Pharaoh's daughter.
Moses sees an Israelite slave being beaten by one of Pharaoh's overseers.
Moses escapes to become a shepherd in Midian, marries Zipporah.
Moses comes upon the burning bush and hears God tell him to free his people back in Egypt.
Moses instructs the Israelites the night before their escape. The Jews spread lamb's blood on their doorframes.
The angel of death visits the houses of the Egyptians to kill their sons, skipping the homes of the Israelites.
The rush to the desert with few belongings and dough which they can't give time to rise.
Nachshon steps into the Red Sea with the Egyptian army pursuing fast.
Miriam leads the Israelites in song dance after they crossed the Red Sea.
The angels scold the Israelites when they celebrate the death of the Egyptian army.
The Israelites rebel in the desert when they start to doubt God and complain about the food.
Moses ascends Sinai, God appears in thunder and lightning, the Israelites, doubting again, build the Golden Calf, Moses smashing tablets but asking God to forgive.
Miriam is punished with leprosy when she speaks against her brother, Moses.
Moses gets water from a stone.
The 12 spies come back from checking out Canaan.
Moses dies.
The Maccabees take back the temple.
Esther and Mordechai foil Haman's evil plot.
Hannah prays so hard for a baby, that she appears to be drunk.
Jonah gets swallowed by the whale.
David slays Goliath with a slingshot.
Jonathan declares that his love for David exceeds his love for his father, King Saul.
David sneaks up on King Saul, cuts a piece of his cloak, but spares him.
Delilah betrays Samson.
David spies Bathesheba for the first time.
David instructs General Joab to send Bathsheba's husband, Uriah, to be killed at the front.
The prophet Natan scolds David with a famous parable. ("You are that man...")
Absalom's hair gets tangled in a tree as he tries to escape.
Delilah tricks Samson.
Ruth tells her mother-in-law, Naomi: "Wherever you go, I shall go...."
The dry bones in Ezekiel's vision come back to life as formed humans.
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Perform a medley of all the songs that were written based on biblical passages. (For example, "Let My People Go," "Down by the Riverside," "By the River of Babylon," "To everything, turn, turn, turn, turn," "Lech Lecha....")
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Write a children's patter song to remember the Ten Plagues and their order!
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Make a montage of God's miracles:
*God creates the world in 7 days
*God sends a flood that wipes out humanity
*God speaks through a burning bush that never burns
*God turns Moses' staff into a snake
*God gives Moses' hand leprosy and then immediately restores it to being white as snow.
*God sends Ten Plagues
*God parts the Red Sea
*God restores the Red Sea, drowning the Egyptian army
*God bringing dry bones to life as humans in Ezekiel's vision.
* Write a rap or ditty that helps us to remember all the different tribes who ruled Israel, in the right order:
WRITE A PATTER SONG TO MEMORIZE ALL THE RULERS OF JERUSALEM:
3300 BCE Canaanite Period
1006 Israelite Period
586 Babylonian Exile
538 Persian Period
332 Hellenistic Period
63 Roman Period
324 Byzantine Period
638 Early Muslim Period
1099 Crusader Period
1260 Mameluke Period
1517 Ottomon Period
1917 British Mandate
1948 Israel independent
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Read the King David section of David Plotz's, "Good Book" and make an animated or iMovie version -- or a play.
Include these characters: David, Samuel, King Saul, Jonathan, Abigail, Bathsheba, Uriah, Nathan, Solomon, Absalom, General Joab.