Religions and Education in Antiquity (Numen Book Series Studies in the History of Religions, 160) - Hardcover

Alex Damm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900438443X ISBN 13: 9789004384439

Publisher: BRILL, 2018

Synopsis

"Religions and Education in Antiquity gathers ten essays on teaching and learning in the contexts of ancient Western religions, including Judaism, early Christianity and Gnostic Christian traditions. Beginning with an overview of religious education in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds, editor Alex Damm and the contributors together demonstrate the mutual influence of religion and education on each other; the relevance of educational traditions in addressing (for instance) historical or exegetical issues; and the thoroughgoing importance of education to religious life across time and space in antiquity. Highly useful to scholars of religion, theology, classics and education, this volume affords a state of the art study on pedagogy and learning in ancient religious contexts"--

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 900438443X
• ISBN 13: 9789004384439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264