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Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World

Philosophers, Jews and Christians

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Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive and accessible survey of religious and philosophical teaching and classroom practices in the ancient world. H. Gregory Snyder synthesizes a wide range of ancient evidence and modern scholarship to address such questions as how the literary practices of Jews and Christians compared to the literary practices of the philosophical schools and whether Christians were particularly noteworthy for their attatchment to scripture.
Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World will be of interest to students of classics, ancient history, the early Christian world and Jewish studies.

..."a helpful and very engaging book."
-Fred Burnett, Anderson University "Religious Studies Review, October 2002

List of platesp. x
Prefacep. xi
List of abbreviationsp. xiv
General introductionp. 1
"Not subjects of a despot": Stoicsp. 14
"Things handed down to us": re-presented textsp. 15
"See how well I read": texts in usep. 18
Conclusionsp. 40
"Salvation through each other": Epicureansp. 45
A few books between friends: the collection and distribution of written textsp. 46
Snakes in the garden: pseudepigraphy and textual criticismp. 50
Veritas, brevitas: epitomesp. 53
"Mali verborum interpretes": translation and commentaryp. 56
"Most 'scruciating idle": the use (and non-use) of booksp. 57
The rhetoric of stone: the inscription of Diogenes of Oenoandap. 61
Conclusionsp. 63
A library lost and found: Peripateticsp. 66
Aristotle redux: Andronicusp. 67
Jots and tittles: pseudepigraphy, textual criticism, and corpus organizationp. 69
Commentaries simple and complexp. 75
Pseudo-Aristotelians at work: epitomes and paraphrasesp. 82
"It was discussed": texts in usep. 86
Conclusionsp. 91
Books beneath a plane tree: Platonistsp. 93
Arranging according to wisdom: strategies for readingp. 94
"Readers by themselves": commentaryp. 100
Cliff notes meets the Timaeus: epitomes and handbooksp. 107
"For three days ...": texts in usep. 111
Conclusionsp. 118
Jewish and Christian groupsp. 122
General introductionp. 122
Laws transcendent and dazzling: Philo of Alexandriap. 123
"A continuous flood of instruction": Philo the teacherp. 127
Conclusionsp. 136
Books among the sons of light: Qumranp. 138
The communityp. 139
"The interpretation concerns ...": pesher commentaryp. 140
Targum: translating scripturep. 147
Texts "at home and away": abbreviations and anthologiesp. 148
"How lovely are her eyes": re-presented Biblep. 151
"All night long": study contexts at Qumranp. 156
Why so much writing at Qumran?p. 159
Texts and text-brokers: Judaism in Palestinep. 165
Of young girls and virgins: translating the Bible (Greek)p. 166
"His eyes were not red": translating the Bible (Aramaic)p. 170
"Dew from the ice of Paradise": re-presented Biblep. 173
"Find, open, read, observe": texts in usep. 178
Textual experts: scribesp. 181
"Unless someone guides me": Christian groupsp. 189
The demands of performance and the form of textsp. 190
"As when present, so when absent": Paul as teacher and text-brokerp. 194
"Not as a teacher": the Epistle of Barnabas as anthology and commentaryp. 206
Christians and the codexp. 212
Conclusionsp. 214
General conclusionsp. 218
Teachers and texts: a modelp. 223
What did Thaumasius want?p. 228
Notesp. 230
Bibliographyp. 290
Indexp. 321
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ISBN: 9780415217651
ISBN-10: 0415217652
Series: Religion in the First Christian Centuries
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 16th August 2000
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.8  x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.48