For home dramatization it is better to take a single incident or story and then combine these incidents into a cycle covering the life of some character.

In the following list episodes are sometimes suggested. In cases where they are not, they may be supplied if desired.

1. The Story of the First Ship

(a) The Warning of the Flood; see 2:22.
(b) Getting the Ark Ready to Sail; see 2:23.
(c) The Voyage in the Great Storm; see 2:24.

(d) The Landing at Ararat: Sending Out the Raven and
the Dove; the First Rainbow; see 2:25-27.

2. Building the Tower Which Was to Reach the Sky; see 2:29. 3. The Life of Abraham

(a) The Pioneer Goes to a Strange Country; see 2:35.

(b) Choosing the Land; see 2:39,40.

(c) The Rescue of Lot from the Hostile Kings; see 2:43.

(d) The Messengers at the Tent; see 2:47-51.

(e) Hagar and Ishmael; see 2:56,57.

(f) The Sacrifice of Isaac; see 2:59-61.

(g) The Flight of Lot-Sodom and Gomorrah; see 2:52–55.

4. Isaac and Rebekah

(a) Sending Out the Old Servant; see 2:66.

(b) The Journey; see 2:67-72.

(c) The Return; see 2:72-74.

(d) Isaac and the Philistines; see 2:74-77. This seems a simple incident, but it might be made very effective. Isaac is camped with his family. He decides he must dig a well for his flocks. He discusses the matter with Rebekah and his herdsmen: "Yes, this is a good place." He begins to dig. The Philistines come up in a quarrelsome mood. They threaten and order him off. He protests. He has a right to dig a well here. "No," they say. "We will fight you." He refuses to fight. He will go somewhere else. They call him a coward, but he goes. This scene is repeated twice. Then the Philistines go away. Isaac digs his well in peace, and thanks God for his bounty and protection.

5. Jacob and Esau

(a) The Selling of the Birthright; see 2:79.

(b) The Deception of Rebekah and Jacob; see 2:80-82.

(c) The Blessing; see 2:82-83.

(d) Leaving Home-a Night in the Wilderness; see 2:83-85. (e) Laban's Home: Meeting with Rachel; see 2:86,87.

(f) Back to the Old Home; see 2:92-100.

6. Joseph and His Brethren

This story almost entire is especially adapted to both simple and elaborate presentation; see 2:103-161.

7. The Life of Moses

(a) Finding the Baby in the Nile; see 2:169.

(b) The Encounter with the Egyptian and the Flight to the Wilderness; see 2:170.

(c) The People Making Bricks in Bondage; see 2:179. (d) The Contest with Pharaoh; see 2:182–185.

(e) The Plagues; see 2:185-200.

(f) The Passover; see 2:197–200.

(g) The Exodus; see 2:202-208. The story of Moses and Pharaoh may be made very simple. Pharaoh sits upon a draped chair for a throne. Moses and Aaron appear before him and make the demand, "Let the people go." Then they threaten the successive plagues, and Pharaoh refuses to yield. After each plague, he seems to grant the demand, and each time repents and refuses. At last, Moses says that they will come back no more. Then comes the scene of the Passover. Moses makes his final entrance, and says the people are marching to freedom. Music from piano or Victrola, a stirring march! The sound of marching feet is heard. The crossing of the Red Sea may be represented: the dismay when the pursuit of Pharaoh is announced, the triumph on the other shore, the songs of Moses and Miriam, the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

8. In the Wilderness

This period abounds in opportunities for dramatic representation and story-telling.

(a) The Halts in the Desert: Marah; Elim; see 2:212.

STATUES ON THE WEST FRONT OF THE CATHEDRAL OF CHARTRES, FRANCE

THIS shows how the Gothic sculptors covered the walls of their great churches with pictures, making them a "Bible in stone."

(b) The Giving of Quails and Manna; see 2:213.

(c) The Fight with Amalek (the Arms of Moses Held Up); see 2:219.

(d) The Scenes at Sinai; see 2:223–244.

(e) The Sending Out of the Spies and Their Return; see 2:248-250.

(f) The Water from the Rock; see 2:255.

(g) The Brazen Serpent; see 2:257.

(h) Building the Tabernacle; see 2:236-244.

(i) The March into Edom; see 2:259.

(j) Moses' Farewell; see 2:272–286.

(k) The Digging of the Well, and the Song of the Well; see 2:260.

The whole wilderness story may be made into one dramatization or divided into separate episodes.

9. The Age of the Judges. This period is also very dramatic. (a) Crossing the Jordan: the Command of Joshua, the Meeting with the Captain of the LORD'S Host, Making the Memorial; see 2:342-345.

(b) Rahab and the Spies; see 2:337-340.
(c) The Capture of Jericho; see 2:345–349.

(d) The Trick of the Gibeonites; see 2:356.

(e) Ehud; see 2:382.

(f) Deborah and Barak; see 2:385.

(g) Jael; see 2:388.

(h) Gideon. This story is full of possibilities:

(1) The Young Farmer Working in the Pit to Save a Little Grain from the Midianites; see 2:393.

(2) The Call; see 2:394-398.

(3) The Gathering of the Men and the Test of Their Fitness; see 2:398-400.

(4) The Night Adventure in the Camp of the Midianites, the Defeat of Midian; see 2:400-402.

Mr. Caldwell Cook, who used this material for his boys at the Perse School, Cambridge, England, suggests that as even a limited number of pitchers would be expensive, a satisfying clatter can be made with old cans outside!

(i) The Story of Abimelech; see 2:406–412.