Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages : : Studies in Honour of Philip S. Alexander.

• Superior document: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Series ; v.100
• Author: Brooke, George J.
• TeilnehmendeR: Smithuis, Renate.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2017.; ©2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (473 pages)

In Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages there are fifteen tightly themed specialist studies that discuss individual texts, wider literary corpora, and various related themes to set a new agenda for the study of Jewish education.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Aspects of Education in the Sectarian Scrolls from the Qumran Caves -- 2 Could Jesus Really Read? Literacy in Roman Galilee -- 3 Paideia in the Fourth Book of Maccabees -- 4 The Shaping of Memory: Josephus on Agrippa II in Jerusalem -- 5 Pedagogues and Primary Teachers, from Paul to the Mishnah -- 6 The Aramaic Targum and its Ancient Jewish Scholarly Environment -- 7 Educational Features in Ancient Jewish Literature: An Overview of Unknowns -- 8 Anecdotal Evidence: Memory, Tradition and Text in Early Christianity and the Hellenistic Schools -- 9 God as the Educator of Humanity: Some Voices from the Syriac Tradition -- 10 Liturgy as an Educational Process in Talmudic and Medieval Judaism -- 11 Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew in the Middle Ages: The Transition from Oral Standard to Written Standard -- 12 Glossary of Difficult Words in the Babylonian Talmud (Seder Moʿed) on a Rotulus -- 13 A Jewish Charm for Memory and Understanding -- 14 Preaching to his Daughter: Jacob Anatoli's Goad for Students (Malmad ha-talmidim) -- 15 Entering the Field of Philosophy: Provence, Mid-Fourteenth Century -- Appendix 1: Philip S. Alexander's Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Sources -- _GoBack.