Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brooke, George J.
• Smithuis, Renate

Description

x, 461 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

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.

Series Statement

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity = Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 1871-6636 ; volume 100

Uniform Title

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 100.

Subjects

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Some text in Hebrew.

Contents

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 Mo'ed) 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 : Philip S. Alexander's Bibliography.

Call Number

JFE 17-10713

ISBN

• 9789004347755
• 9004347755

LCCN

2017034000

OCLC

995094341

Title

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

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity = Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 1871-6636 ; volume 100

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 100.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

Some text in Hebrew.

Added Author

Brooke, George J., editor.

Smithuis, Renate, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Jewish education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004347762 (DLC) 2017035875

Research Call Number

JFE 17-10713