sixpence1978 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I'm just wondering if anybody has had luck with cutting a few Bible lessons out of MOH 1 in order to spend a bit more time exploring some of the more loaded History lessons? Or does that completely ruin the flow and purpose of MOH? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschickie Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 The concept of MoH is to see the Bible in the context of what is commonly considered ancient history. If you were to cut out the Bible lessons it really does miss the point of the curriculum in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 We cut out all the Bible stories. My kids have heard those for years in Sunday School and are already familiar with them all, even the more obscure prophets. There really isn't much more historical information in those lessons than is already covered in the Bible itself. When we did the timeline work we mentioned the Bible characters that had been covered in that section and put them on the timeline so we could see where they fit into the rest of ancient history and that was definitely both beneficial and worthwhile. But it was a higher priority for us to get farther through history than just Creation to Christ in one year than it was to spend that time re-reading the Bible stories. YMMV. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixpence1978 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 Thanks for the input. I wasn't thinking of cutting all the Bible lessons out, just maybe some like Gideon or a few of the prophets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Then I think you'll be just fine. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess4879 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 We are only a few weeks in to MoH 1 and I was debating about doing this as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. Y Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 No offence to MOH writer or users, but the thing that always was a bit off putting for me about MOH vol 1 is it always seemed like a glorified Bible Storybook....as in there didn't appear to be a lot of other history covered but for what you read in the Bible. Like another poster mentioned, we have covered many of these Bible stories frequently through the years and I was ready for other history. Am I mistaken? People really seem to like MOH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 No offence to MOH writer or users, but the thing that always was a bit off putting for me about MOH vol 1 is it always seemed like a glorified Bible Storybook....as in there didn't appear to be a lot of other history covered but for what you read in the Bible. Like another poster mentioned, we have covered many of these Bible stories frequently through the years and I was ready for other history. Am I mistaken? People really seem to like MOH. I do really like MOH as we are continuing to use it through Vol II, III, and IV. As far as Vol I goes, there actually is quite a lot of history there interspersed throughout the Bible stories, and it really is a very good curriculum for showing how and where the Bible stories we're already familiar with intersects with more secular history. We just didn't find it time effective to cover those Bibles stories as a separate lesson and do an associated activity with them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirstenhill Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 I just went and made a quick count through the table of contents, and I think about 45 or maybe 47 lessons (depending on what you count) out of 109 have something Biblical as the primary theme. I agree with the pp that many of those lessons include other historical background information that is not typically in a Bible story book. My kids had heard many of those Bible stories before (probably not the minor prophets, but many of the others). But we've never read the Bible chronologically as a family nor have we looked at how those Bible books matched up with other key events and cultures in ancient history. If you've already done a lot of chronological Bible study, then absolutely MOH 1 might be duplication. It wasn't for us. We also "double up" in MOH 1 by reading 4 lessons per week (2 lessons on 2 different days), and then doing the first quarter of book 2 during that year as well to take us all the way to the fall of the Roman Empire. We focused our activities and outside reading on the other ancient cultures (Egypt, Greece, etc), and enjoyed the MOH readings based in Bible studies without a lot of extra activity or discussion. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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