Ma Nishtana: What is Jewish about Jewish Games?
What makes Jewish games Jewish? We argue that it is not simply Jewish content, but an engagement with Jewish ideas through ritual, intertextuality, and/or culture. We explore this thesis through the analog role-playing game Ma Nishtana: Why Is This Night Different (2023). We show how the game engage...
| Nebentitel: | "Special Issue 'Teaching with Games: Formative Gaming in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics'" |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2023
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| In: |
Gamevironments
Jahr: 2023, Band: 19, Seiten: 52-79 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Learning
B gamevironments B Game B Education B Passover B Judaism B Game Design B Seder B Jewish |
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| Zusammenfassung: | What makes Jewish games Jewish? We argue that it is not simply Jewish content, but an engagement with Jewish ideas through ritual, intertextuality, and/or culture. We explore this thesis through the analog role-playing game Ma Nishtana: Why Is This Night Different (2023). We show how the game engages Jewish knowledge transmission in all three modes, over and above its overt engagement of the Exodus story. This approach can introduce players to Jewish modes of being, including how we intertwine history, ritual, stories, and rules. This in turn can help address misconceptions about Jewish experience, particularly those that derive from Christian supersessionism and hegemony. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-382X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Gamevironments
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.48783/gameviron.v19i19.225 |