Education in Ancient Israel Across the Deadening Silence
- New York Doubleday & Company, Inc 1998
- 305p
includes index and biblioraphy
Chapter One: Literacy 29 Chapter Two: The Contemplative Life 51 Chapter Three: Schools in Ancient Israel 85 Chapter Four: The Acquisition of Knowledge 115 Chapter Five: Resistance to Learning 139 Chapter Six: The Missing Voice 187 Chapter Seven: Language for Intellectual Achievement 205 Chapter Eight: A Literary Canon 221 Chapter Nine: Knowledge as Human Discovery and as Divine Gift 239 Chapter Ten: Probing the Unknown: Knowledge and the Sacred 255