Education in Ancient Israel: Across the Deadening Silence
Overview
In this groundbreaking new book, 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 society did they come?" and "How did instructors interest young people in the things they had to say?" Crenshaw explores the institutions and practices of education in ancient Israel. The results are often surprising and more complicated than one would expect.
Education, for the people who lived in the biblical world, was more than a simple matter of memorizing information and taking tests. It was a search for the hidden plan and presence of God. Knowledge was gained, according to biblical texts such as Ecclesiastes and Proverbs, not only by means of patient observation and listening, but through communication with Wisdom, the feminine incarnation of the Divine. Drawing upon a broad range of ancient sources, Crenshaw examines this religious dimension of education in ancient Israel, demonstrating how the practice of teaching and learning was transformed into the supreme act of worship.
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- Investigates education in ancient Israel and its surroundings
- Explores the institutions and practices of education in the biblical world
- Discusses the religious dimension of education in ancient Israel
- 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
James Crenshaw has established himself as our primary authority on the wisdom traditions of the Hebrew Bible. It is clear, given his great learning, that he has spent his entire life getting ready to write this volume. There is no doubt that this book will be a benchmark and point of reference for all subsequent study. Crenshaw sees that education in ancient Israel was determinedly moral education. Among other things, the book teems with hints and implications concerning the issue of moral education in our own time.
—Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus, Columbia Theological Seminary
- Title: Education in Ancient Israel: Across the Deadening Silence
- Author: James L. Crenshaw
- Series: Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Print Publication Date: 1998
- Logos Release Date: 2010
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jews › Education--History; Jews › History--To 70 A.D
- ISBNs: 9780385468916, 0385468911
- Resource ID: LLS:EDANCISRAEL
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:36:26Z