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Christopher Jero serves as the Language Department Chair at Mars Hill Academy in Mason, Ohio, where he has taught Bible and ancient languages since 2006. He is a former violinist to whom God gave a passion for making Jesus known through the Holy Scriptures. Believing that there is no more intimate way of communing with God in Scripture than through the original languages, Jero obtained an M.A. in Old Testament from Columbia International University and a Ph.D. in Hebrew and Cognate Studies from Hebrew Union College. Jero seeks to be an instrument by which God inspires the same passion in his students. He is also the author of Mother-Child Narratives and the Kingdom of God: Authorial Use of Typology as an Interpretive Device in Samuel-Kings (Bulletin for Biblical Research 25, 2015) and Tense, Mood, and Aspect in the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System (in Where Shall Wisdom be Found?, Eisenbrauns, 2017).
A classical humanities curriculum depends heavily on the student’s ability to read effectively, whether reading the Bible, the Great Books, a textbook, or other secondary sources. Yet so-called “Gen Alpha,” whether due to Covid-19 or social media, seems more ill-equipped to read than any other generation in living memory. This session provides tools and practical techniques for cultivating a focused and thoughtful approach to reading. The session particularly addresses how to identify questions that inadvertently encourage lazy reading and turn them into questions that stimulate effective reading.