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6 days ago · The second element that plays an important role in the debate surrounding the kingdom of Judah is connected to its level of development. "Some archaeologists think that Judah was not well ...
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
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.
- Literacy, Judah and The Bible
- An Inkwell from 1st Century Judea
- Modern Forensics Helps Crack The Biblical Mystery
- What About Literacy in Early Israel and The Writing of The Bible?
Last week we profiled new archaeological evidence, that was a surprise to many, showing that Judah was a very robust centralized kingdom in the 7th century BC, supporting the biblical account of conditions at this time. Now, new evidence is coming forward indicating that literacy rates in different periods were not as low as previously thought. The...
The first piece of evidence comes from the Khirbet Brakhot excavation site in Gush Etzion, just south of Bethlehem. An intact inkwell was discovered inside the remains of a large Second Temple period building. The Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70, so this dates the find to the first part of the 1st century. The inkwell has a thick ...
Researchers from multiple disciplines at Tel Aviv University have now teamed up with a forensics handwriting expert to reexamine the writings from Arad. In an article recently published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS One) their ground-breaking conclusion was that “…according to the forensic analysis, the number of independent writers within...
This evidence impacts scholars’ views of when the earliest books of the Bible could have been written (or compiled), because they believe such complex works were unlikely to have been composed until literacy was fairly widespread. However, this thinking seems unwarranted, since all the ancient Egyptian inscriptions and documents in hieroglyphics we...
In the Spring 2020 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Richelle details his reasoning in the article “When Did Literacy Emerge in Judah?” There are two significant reasons to think that writing was prevalent in Israel and Judah during the early first millennium B.C.E.:
Jan 11, 1997 · This study explores the contribution of education in ancient Israel and its application to Christian education for children today.
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Aug 28, 2019 · General Overviews. 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.
