Jewish education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages : studies in honour of Philip S. Alexander /

Jewish education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages : studies in honour of Philip S. Alexander /

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 c...

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Other Authors: Brooke, George J., Smithuis, Renate.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 100.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.

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Alexander, Philip S., > honoree.
Jews > Education > History.
Education, Ancient.
Education, Medieval.

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Call Number: LA102

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Table of 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.