Jewish education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages : studies in honour of Philip S. Alexander / edited by George J. Brooke and Renate Smithuis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooke

Contributor:

Brooke, George J.

Smithuis, Renate.

Series:

Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 100.

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity = Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; v. 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Education--History.

Jews.

Education, Ancient.

Education, Medieval.

Alexander, Philip S. honoree.

Alexander, Philip S.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 461 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2017

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

In Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages fifteen scholars offer specialist studies on Jewish education from the areas of their expertise. This tightly themed volume in honour of Philip S. Alexander has some essays that look at individual manuscripts, some that consider larger literary corpora, and some that are more thematically organised. Jewish education has been addressed largely as a matter of the study house, the bet midrash. Here a richer range of texts and themes discloses a wide variety of activity in several spheres of Jewish life. In addition, some notable non-Jewish sources provide a wider context for the discourse than is often the case.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / George J. Brooke and Renate Smithuis

Introduction / George J. Brooke and Renate Smithuis

Aspects of Education in the Sectarian Scrolls from the Qumran Caves / George J. Brooke

Could Jesus Really Read? Literacy in Roman Galilee / Seán Freyne

Paideia in the Fourth Book of Maccabees / Tessa Rajak

The Shaping of Memory: Josephus on Agrippa ii in Jerusalem / Martin Goodman

Pedagogues and Primary Teachers, from Paul to the Mishnah / William Horbury

The Aramaic Targum and its Ancient Jewish Scholarly Environment / Robert Hayward

Educational Features in Ancient Jewish Literature: An Overview of Unknowns / Alexander Samely

Anecdotal Evidence: Memory, Tradition and Text in Early Christianity and the Hellenistic Schools / Loveday C. A. Alexander

God as the Educator of Humanity: Some Voices from the Syriac Tradition / Sebastian P. Brock

Liturgy as an Educational Process in Talmudic and Medieval Judaism / Stefan C. Reif

Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew in the Middle Ages: The Transition from Oral Standard to Written Standard / Geoffrey Khan

Glossary of Difficult Words in the Babylonian Talmud (Seder Moʿed) on a Rotulus / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

A Jewish Charm for Memory and Understanding / Gideon Bohak

Preaching to his Daughter: Jacob Anatoli’s Goad for Students (Malmad ha-talmidim) / Renate Smithuis

Entering the Field of Philosophy: Provence, Mid-Fourteenth Century / Colette Sirat

Appendix 1: Philip S. Alexander’s Bibliography / George J. Brooke and Renate Smithuis

Index of Modern Authors / George J. Brooke and Renate Smithuis

Index of Sources / George J. Brooke and Renate Smithuis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004347762

9004347763

OCLC:

995355662

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004347762 DOI