Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of Philip S. Alexander

474 Pages·2017·3.64 MB·English

by  George J. Brooke

Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Ancient Judaism and Early
Christianity
Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des
Urchristentums
Founding Editor
Martin Hengel † (Tübingen)
Executive Editors
Cilliers Breytenbach (Berlin)
Martin Goodman (Oxford)
Editorial Board
Lutz Doering (Münster) – Tal Ilan (Berlin) – Judith Lieu (Cambridge)
Tessa Rajak (Reading/Oxford) – Daniel R. Schwartz (Jerusalem)
Seth Schwartz (New York) – Christiane Zimmermann (Kiel)
Volume 100
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Philip S. Alexander with a Bomberg Bible at the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Photo by Gwen Riley Jones
Jewish Education from Antiquity
to the Middle Ages
Studies in Honour of Philip S. Alexander
Edited by
George J. Brooke and Renate Smithuis
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
George J. Brooke and Renate Smithuis
1 Aspects of Education in the Sectarian Scrolls from the Qumran
Caves 11
George J. Brooke
2 Could Jesus Really Read? Literacy in Roman Galilee 43
Seán Freyne †
3 Paideia in the Fourth Book of Maccabees 63
Tessa Rajak
4 The Shaping of Memory: Josephus on Agrippa II in Jerusalem 85
Martin Goodman
5 Pedagogues and Primary Teachers, from Paul to the Mishnah 95
William Horbury
6 The Aramaic Targum and its Ancient Jewish Scholarly
Environment 128
Robert Hayward
7 Educational Features in Ancient Jewish Literature: An Overview of
Unknowns 147
Alexander Samely
8 Anecdotal Evidence: Memory, Tradition and Text in Early Christianity
and the Hellenistic Schools 201
Loveday C. A. Alexander
9 God as the Educator of Humanity: Some Voices from the Syriac
Tradition 236
Sebastian P. Brock
vi Contents
10 Liturgy as an Educational Process in Talmudic and Medieval
Judaism 252
Stefan C. Reif
11 Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew in the Middle Ages: The Transition
from Oral Standard to Written Standard 269
Geoffrey Khan
12 Glossary of Difficult Words in the Babylonian Talmud (Seder Moʿed)
on a Rotulus 296
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
13 A Jewish Charm for Memory and Understanding 324
Gideon Bohak
14 Preaching to his Daughter: Jacob Anatoli’s Goad for Students
(Malmad ha-talmidim) 341
Renate Smithuis
15 Entering the Field of Philosophy: Provence, Mid-Fourteenth
Century 398
Colette Sirat
Appendix 1: Philip S. Alexander’s Bibliography 413
Index of Modern Authors 433
Index of Sources 443
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
12.1 The “Oxbridge” rotulus; composite image consisting of three
Genizah fragments: Oxford, Bodl. MS Heb. b 12/33 (fragment I),
Cambridge, T-S G2.20 (2) (fragment II) and Cambridge, T-S G2.20 (1)
(fragment III) 302
12.2 Detail of the rotulus 304
12.3 Individual letters on the rotulus 305
12.4 Aleph-lamed ligatures and some abbreviations on the rotulus 305
12.5 Individual letters on the rotulus 306
12.6 Individual letters on the rotulus 306
12.7 Detail of the rotulus 306
12.8 Detail of the rotulus 307
12.9 Detail of the rotulus 307
12.10 Details of the two rotuli 311
12.11 Detail of fragment III of the “Oxbridge” rotulus (recto, line 77) 317
12.12 Detail of fragment III of the “Oxbridge” rotulus (verso, line 11) 317
Tables
12.1 Fragments and pieces of parchment 301
12.2 Morphology of salient letters: similarities between the “Oxbridge”
rotulus and Oxford, Bodl. MS Heb. e 52r 310
12.3 The order of the preserved tractates 313