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The standard education texts were the Mishna and later the Talmud and Gemora, all hand-written until invention of printing. However, significant emphasis was placed on developing good memory skills in addition to comprehension by practice of oral repetition.
May 26, 2016 · The best unambiguous evidence for schools in ancient Israel comes from a few abecedaries and accounting practice texts found at sites such as Izbet Sarta, Tel Zayit, Kadesh Barnea, and Kuntillet ʿAjrud.
Aug 28, 2019 · The role of the family has been a focal point for the study of education in ancient Israel. Some works, such as Demsky 1971 , discuss how older generations passed down craft knowledge, domestic abilities, and wisdom within Israelite society according to broad categories.
Sep 30, 2014 · This article presents a survey of the recent research which has been making significant progress in examining scribal schools and education in ancient Israel. It specifically treats scholarly recourse to the extra-biblical data provided by epigraphic remains, and discusses the comparative potentials of the wider ancient world itself.
- Laura Quick
- 2014
Present knowledge about education in ancient Israel is astonishingly incomplete. This deficiency of hard evidence exists despite many attempts to recover the actual learning situation prior to the first explicit reference to a school, Ben Sira's invitation to acquire an education at his house of
Matrimony and family life are regarded in ancient Israel as unqualifiedly the normal, divinely established and prescribed state. On the other hand, to estimate voluntary abstinence from matri mony as an especial merit, and to ascribe to it a higher degree of divine perfection and even of holiness, was far from the thought of any one in ancient ...
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Sep 29, 2022 · 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.
