Ancient education and early Christianity / edited by Matthew Ryan Hauge and Andrew W. Pitts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hauge, Matthew Ryan, editor.

Pitts, Andrew W., editor.

Series:

Library of New Testament studies ; 533.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of New Testament studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian education--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Christian education.

History.

Christian education--Early church.

Education--History.

Education.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

The Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS) is a premier book series that offers cutting-edge work for a readership of scholars, teachers in the field of New Testament studies, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. All the many and diverse aspects of New Testament study are represented and promoted, including innovative work from historical perspectives, studies using social-scientific and literary theory, and developing theological, cultural and contextual approaches. Ancient Education and Early Christianity, What was the relationship of ancient education to early Christianity? This volume provides an in-depth look at different approaches currently employed by scholars who draw upon educational settings in the ancient world to inform their historical research in Christian origins. The book is divided into two sections: one consisting of essays on education in the ancient world, and one consisting of exegetical studies dealing with various passages where motifs emerging from ancient educational culture provide illumination. The chapters summarize the state of the discussion on ancient education in classical and biblical studies, examine obstacles to arriving at a comprehensive theory of early Christianity's relationship to ancient education, compare different approaches, and compile the diverse methodologies into one comparative study. Several educational motifs are integrated in order to demonstrate the exegetical insights that they may yield when utilized in New Testament historical investigation and interpretation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Ancient education and early Christianity / Matthew Ryan Hauge and Andrew W. Pitts

The Torah versus Homer: Jewish and Greco-Roman education in late Roman Palestine / Catherine Hezser

Exodus from the cave: Moses as Platonic educator / Craig Evan Anderson

Observing a teacher of progymnasmata / Ronald F. Hock

The seven sages, the Delphic canon and ethical education in antiquity / James R. Harrison

Fabulous parables: the storytelling tradition in the synoptic gospels / Matthew Ryan Hauge

The origins of Greek mimesis and the gospel of Mark: genre as a potential constraint in assessing Markan imitation / Andrew W. Pitts

Luke and progymnasmata: rhetorical handbooks, rhetorical sophistication and genre selection / Sean A. Adams

Luke's antetextuality in light of ancient rhetorical educaiton / Dennis R. MacDonald

A school of Paul? The use of Pauline texts in early Christian schooltext papyri / Jennifer R. Strawbridge

How did the 'teaching' teach? The Didache as catechesis / William Varner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780567660275

0567660273

OCLC:

908373543