Pedagogy in ancient Judaism and early Christianity / edited by Karina Martin Hogan, Matthew Goff, and Emma Wasserman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"There is little direct evidence for formal education in the Bible and in the texts of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. At the same time, pedagogy and character formation are important themes in many of these texts. This book explores the pedagogical purpose of wisdom literature, in which the concept of discipline (Hebrew musar) is closely tied to the acquisition of wisdom. It examines how and why the concept of musar came to be translated as paideia (education, enculturation) in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint), and how the concept of paideia was deployed by ancient Jewish authors writing in Greek. The different understandings of paideia in wisdom and apocalyptic writings of Second Temple Judaism are this book's primary focus. It also examines how early Christians adapted the concept of paideia, influenced by both the Septuagint and Greco-Roman understandings of this concept"-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction / Karina Martin Hogan -- Ancient Israelite pedagogy and its survival in Second Temple interpretations of scripture / James L. Kugel -- Wisdom and Torah / John J. Collins -- Would Philo have recognized Qumran musar as paideia? / Karina Martin Hogan -- Kyropaideia versus paideia kyriou: the semantic transformation of paideia and cognates in the translated books of the Septuagint / Patrick Pouchelle -- Paideia and the gynmasium / Robert Doran -- Reading Proverbs in light of Torah: the pedagogy of 4QBeatitudes / Elisa Uusimäki -- Gardens of knowledge: teachers in Ben Sira, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot / Matthew Goff -- Paideia: a multifarious and unifying concept in the Wisdom of Solomon / Jason M. Zurawski -- Job and the "mystic's solution" to theodicy: philosophical paideia and internalized apocalypticism in the Testament of Job / Andrew R. Guffey -- The mysteries of paideia: "mystery" and education in Plato's Symposium, 4QInstruction, and 1 Corinthians / C. Andrew Ballard -- Mosaic Torah as encyclical paideia: reading Paul's allegory of Hagar and Sarah in light of Philo of Alexandria's / Jason M. Zurawski -- Wily, wise, and worldly: instruction and the formation of character in the epistle to the Hebrews / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken -- Paideia and polemic in second-century Lyons: Irenaeus on education / D. Jeffrey Bingham -- Why did Christians compete with pagans for Greek paideia? / Raffaella Cribiore.

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