Pedagogy in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Early Judaism and Its Literature Book 41)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072QLCT26 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 355 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kugel, Patrick Pouchelle, Elisa Uusimäki, and Jason M. It also examines how early Christians adapted the concept of paideia, influenced by both the Septuagint and Greco-Roman understandings of this concept.Contributors include Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, C. The different understandings of paideia in wisdom and apocalyptic writings of Second Temple Judaism are this book's primary focus. Andrew Ballard, D. 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. At the same time, pedagogy and character formation are important themes in many of these texts. 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. She is the author of Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra (2008).Matthew Goff is Professor of Religion at Florida State University. Guffey, Karina Martin Hogan, James L. Engage fourteen essays from an international group of expertsThere is little direct evidence for formal education in the Bible and in the