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Author:   Alex Damm
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   160
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004384439

ISBN 10:   900438443
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Religions and Education in Antiquity: An Introduction  Alex Damm 1 Wisdom from the Wise: Pedagogical Principles from Proverbs  John L. McLaughlin 2 Education in the Sacrospace of Qumran Judaism  Wayne O. McCready 3 Late Second Temple Judaism: A Reconstruction and Re-description as a Religio-Cultural System  Jack N. Lightstone 4 Techne in Plato and the New Testament  Joseph A. Novak 5 Why Not to Pity Rome: Revelation 18:22-23a in its Ancient Educational Context  Alex Damm 6 Those Who Hear: The Power of Learners in 1 Timothy  Mona Tokarek LaFosse 7 Translation Matters: The Coptic Translation of Thomas  John Horman 8 Pedagogy, Text and the Solitary Self in the Gospel of Thomas  William Arnal 9 Praises and Rebukes in the Gnostic Revelation Dialogues  Michael Kaler Index

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Scholars of ancient and late antique adult instruction find interesting conversation partners in this stimulating volume. - Monika Amsler, University of Maryland/University of Zurich, Zeitschrift fur Religions-Wissenschaft 27.2, 2019.

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Alex Damm, Ph.D. (2010), University of Toronto, is Instructor in Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is author of Ancient Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem (2013) and editor of Gandhi in a Canadian Context (2016). Contributors are: William Arnal, Alex Damm, John Horman, Michael Kaler, Jack N. Lightstone, Wayne O. McCready, John L. McLaughlin, Joseph A. Novak, Mona Tokarek LaFosse.

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