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
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