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2008 Bibliodrama Training Intensive --Click here!
The Interfaith Bibliodrama Training Intensive was conducted by Dr. Peter A. Pitzele from 2000-2004 at The Saint Paul Seminary and at Luther Seminary in 2005-06 The training will take place at The Saint Paul Seminary in 2007, and a two-day workshop on biblical story-telling will be held at the Talmud Torah School in Minneapolis.
What is
Bibliodrama?
Situated somewhere between school and theater, between the pulpit and the stage,
Bibliodrama
is a form of
role-playing that invites participants to find their voices in the text and the
text's voice in themselves.
Who is Peter Pitzele?
For
twenty-five years Peter Pitzele
has been developing a form of biblical investigation and play
which involves the peson, the community and the tradition.
He
has been sharing his
work as a scholar-and
artist-in-residence at more than one hundred
congregations
in the United States,
Canada, and Europe.
He
has taught Bibliodrama to
rabbis, scholars, educators,
pastors, priests,
lay-people, performers,
and families.
Appealing to all ages and to different faiths
and denominations,
Bibliodrama has been
an instrument for community-building,
for inter-religious
dialogue, for deepening the relationship
of individuals to the biblical traditions,
and for rendering new insights from ancient sources.
Peter is a former adjunct faculty member of the Jewish
Theological Seminary and Union Theological
Seminary, both in New York. He
currently acts as Dean of Faculty for Storahtelling, is an advisor to
the
Pastoral Training Program at HUC and continues to develop the method of
Bibliodrama.
He is
the author of Our Fathers’ Wells: A Personal Encounter with the Myths of
Genesis,
published by HarperCollins: San Francisco, 1995, and now in paperback, and
Scripture
Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, published by Torah Aura: Los
Angeles,
and runner up for Best Book in Jewish Education, l998.
The most
frequently heard response to this work is:
“I will never read the Bible the same way again.”