Education in ancient Israel : across the deadening silence /
"In this new study, distinguished biblical scholar James L. Crenshaw investigates both the pragmatic hows and the philosophical whys of education in ancient Israel and its surroundings. Asking questions as basic as "Who were the teachers and students, and from what segment of Israelite soc...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
©1998.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | Anchor Bible reference library.
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Table of Contents:
- Literacy
- The contemplative life
- Schools in ancient Israel
- The acquisition of knowledge
- Resistance to learning
- The missing voice
- Language for intellectual achievement
- A literary canon
- Knowledge as human discovery and as divine gift
- Probing the unknown : knowledge and the sacred.