Pedagogy in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Early Judaism and Its Literature)

About the AuthorKarina Martin Hogan is Associate Professor of Theology and Women's Studies at Fordham University. She is on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of Judaism, the Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series, and the Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. She is the author of Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra (2008).Matthew Goff is Professor of Religion at Florida State University. Her most recent book Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the World of Paul is forthcoming in the Anchor Yale Bible Series.. He is the author most recently of 4QInstruction: A Commentary (2013).Emma Wasserman is Associate Professor of Religion at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

FeaturesA thorough lexical study of the term paideia in the SeptuagintExploration of the relationship of wisdom and Torah in Second Temple JudaismExamination of how Christians developed new forms of pedagogy in competition with Jewish and pagan systems of education. It also examines how early Christians adapted the concept of paideia, influenced by both the Septuagint and Greco-Roman understandings of this concept. This book explores the pedagogical purpose of wisdom literature, in which the concept of discipline (Hebrew musar) is closely tied to the acquisition of wisdom.

She is the author of Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra (2008).Matthew Goff is Professor of Religion at Florida State University. Her most recent book Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the World of Paul is forthcoming in the Anchor Yale Bible Series.. She is on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of Judaism, the Journal for the Study of Judai