_book_id:0 _book_language:en _book_alttitle:0 _dedication_title:0 _publisher_id:0 _collection_id_series:nus  i ReligionsandEducationinAntiquity © KoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,2019 | doi:10.1163/9789004384613_001 ii  Numen Book Series StudiesintheHistoryofReligions Series Editors StevenEngler(Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada) RichardKing(University of Kent, UK) KockuvonStuckrad(University of Groningen, The Netherlands) GerardWiegers(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) VOLUME160 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedat brill.com/nus  iii iv  MichelDesjardins  v Religions and Education in Antiquity Studies in Honour of Michel Desjardins Edited by AlexDamm LEIDEN|BOSTON vi  Coverillustration:SchoolcomplexinTrimithis,RomanEgypt,fourthcenturyCE.Courtesyandcopyright: 2007NYUExcavationsatAmheida(VII)(usedwithpermission).PublishedbytheInstitutefortheStudy oftheAncientWorldaspartoftheAncientWorldImageBank(AWIB)[CCBY2.0<https://creativecom mons.org/licenses/by/2.0 > ],viaWikimediaCommons. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Damm,Alex,editor.|Desjardins,MichelR.(MichelRobert),1951- honoree. Title:Religionsandeducationinantiquity:studiesinhonourofMichel Desjardins/editedbyAlexDamm. Description:Leiden;Boston:Brill,[2019]|Series:Numenbookseries. Studiesinthehistoryofreligions,ISSN0169-8834;volume160| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018033943(print)|LCCN2018039898(ebook)|ISBN 9789004384613(E-book)|ISBN9789004384439(hardback:¬alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Religiouseducation--History.|Education,Ancient.| Desjardins,MichelR.(MichelRobert),1951-|LCGFT:Festschriften. Classification:LCCBL42(ebook)|LCCBL42.R4372018(print)|DDC 207/.5093--dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018033943 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill-typeface. issn0169-8834 isbn978-90-04-38443-9(hardback) isbn978-90-04-38461-3(e-book) Copyright2019byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi,Brill Sense,HoteiPublishing,mentisVerlag,VerlagFerdinandSchöninghandWilhelmFinkVerlag. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillnvprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,ma01923,usa.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. ContentCsontents vii Contents Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations x Notes on Contributors xvi xviii Religions and Education in Antiquity: An Introduction 1 Alex Damm 1 Wisdom from the Wise: Pedagogical Principles from Proverbs 29 John L. McLaughlin 2 Education in the Sacrospace of Qumran Judaism 55 Wayne O. McCready 3 Late Second Temple Judaism: A Reconstruction and Re-description as a Religio-Cultural System 76 Jack N. Lightstone 4 Techne in Plato and the New Testament 107 Joseph A. Novak 5 Why Not to Pity Rome: Revelation 18:22-23a in its Ancient Educational Context 127 Alex Damm 6 Those Who Hear: The Power of Learners in 1 Timothy 147 Mona Tokarek LaFosse 7 Translation Matters: The Coptic Translation of Thomas 171 John Horman 8 Pedagogy, Text and the Solitary Self in the Gospel of Thomas 194 William Arnal 9 Praises and Rebukes in the Gnostic Revelation Dialogues 212 Michael Kaler viii Contents Index of Ancient Sources 225 Index of Modern Authors 236 Index of Names and Subjects 240 243 J JW  3  1 W9M 24J 5A 6M78 ICC A J oooa n ollohhsacioieedclennknnxxynlehpi ttn aNaxDDeLHaehe m n..Ten aao AOLMlottmmr sAi.Ksk.m g cN MammrahLanrolat ceenavsCurkat l o grkLenh aaelFid noy s se IPFRPMEISTSPSPTISCLNSUTTTGJSTMBUARAIRMenmdnuuuuuueeairlrrhhhhudheeinnersrwgaaaeedstooaccmmmmmmetablleerueorwacartuctktiihhaeivdbeiicg a iorggmgechslAPessP lir mmmmmmeennaoollAeuCe252LT1PPWET1W1T112vAANR17niiisarndhteo eerne7b9r024oonSeeu aig i-6591s2cietneraerihodouseaaaaaaga bcmsbdoa17ad277R4its, nnt zEisiiac5ihtac asd ta c lrrrrrrs nkfuooceenulstbnsRo aiaJSoreihen sidayyyyyyiy n ineao undatnsgsTtnRtcsadgglrto e tnu mnn siOuashroS dgenednyeiidaNocoor na oteicllci oLoiesdo,ce gsaeeie voatr desmaabWnw gnfintteoR z nMn aiac iigan ps lit inshano yi uTS(oCdag ct eanEolet it osty,s lasPhna fe efeo o eaent iict thhomtC, fba( dnlSrC nroan iiP ridodTro lln aatTR NofenrooTSutoeuo2 ioidnmnisod el agn tei tna nmoHheeRPnPn0danok MenvcsS icdun amn xTio ncc Qn5t teieres wafsehsanttTea Mdnc teditoohaaE neth rdtsrtsbecaC neayugnl medhoa iiit b n TndusT renacuioonro b osemEtud nRra ne oesd:h enuEeeshipt rkffinuS idli n dnTssoit sLa c1r Wrntncddetel(ASTaaoty tup -dsau etmihlahiaAoest uoa 7oen cn not:tuctan l Bihr te erem)JhPrcrmrThil)sade sacitu sn i CAeeerosa eoePr hReh:1tteEl ae dt phR sa4 : itoaSnnRSo t SoNe eidonNpicoPaclahrecapootw ye vrenyueiaytCftiveiabeenstlnsnves, i qwe ciic d iQl wto  cuRmecJl ato Gc ureae AaF eaeaptklTnuh u tmiTaoatn:rgo r2rn6etet imdeiruaAtey9f)o0ioyfoso t sitc msi s0t gRinLio so rQSnn RtaaanqTtaiene era e cnliuume DnPriaEelcam saca1cdfmil rm daie8tlJ Raona nie yunter:Prntnelsi2nhe:ladortot rl yv2sAr tsteeani a g teh-s nC tn i2ruRJ lJiesicuuha3u oen1emI i1tacGdrsndnpc 2ii1t a ooias otl ioTneirtoninssifossi pna mis mm DdTtfte nsraruh iol oa una MAcootsmlcdhtmn fooait y ogcRTin PaC oiunhearsenueo - osnd lsvtomtt ieeu fcEsar irLcbsdsaarm sulit *pSce  yat Sistoeit1o1enc7nmo aans ld aC TRoeenmltiepgxiloet -JCuudlatiusrmal Syst334215566881222112245111111111221111178ixx1e0x779939930112402462291101014551389v2807028m71397062433740473180i 76 AcknowAlcedkgneomwelnetdsgements ix Acknowledgements IwishtothanktheeditorialboardofNumenforitsacceptanceofthismanu- script,andTessaSchildofBrillforherexpertiseandgraciousmannerinfacili- tatingthebook’screation.AlsoIwouldliketothankProfessorJ.S.Kloppenborg forhisadviceonvariousfronts,andProfessorTonyBurkeforhiscarefuledito- rialeye.Draftsofsomeportionsofthisbookhavebeenpresentedaspapersat conferencesoftheEuropeanAssociationofBiblicalStudiesandtheCanadian SocietyofBiblicalStudies. Asalways,mydeepestgratitudeisforthesupportandwisdomofmypar- ents,BeverleyandAlexis,andofmypartnerPriya. x Abbreviations Abbreviations Abbreviations Whereverpossible,abbreviationsfollowtheconventionsinInternationales Abkür- zungsverzeichnis für Theologie und Grenzgebiete,2nded.,ed.SiegfriedSchwertner(Ber- lin / NewYork:WalterdeGruyter,1994).Birthanddeathdatesofancientauthorsare takenfromtheOxford Classical Dictionary,3rded.,ed.SimonHornblower / Antony Spawforth.(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,1996),andabbreviationsforbiblicaltexts followtheconventionsinPatrickH.Alexanderetal.,ed.,SBL Handbook of Style: For Ancient, Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies(Peabody:Hendrickson, 1999). AAAG Annals of the Association of American Geographers ABS T&TClarkApproachestoBiblicalStudies AGNT MaximilianZerwick / MaryGrosvenor,Analysis of the Greek New Testament,2vols. AJEC AncientJudaismandEarlyChristianity AMS AncientMonasticSources AncB AnchorBible AncBD Anchor Bible Dictionary,ed.DavidNoelFreedmanetal.,6vols. AncBRL AnchorBibleReferenceLibrary AncYB AnchorYaleBible ASMB Auxsourcesdumonachismebénédictin ASNU ActaSeminariineotestamenticiUpsaliensis AW TheAncientWorld BAGD A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature,EditedandRevisedbyFrederickWilliamDanker,Basedon WalterBauer’sGriechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neu en Testaments,sixthedition,editedbyKurtAlandandBarbara Aland,withViktorReichman,andonpreviousEnglisheditionsbyW.F. Arndt,F.W.Gingrich,andF.W.Danker. BASOR.S BulletinoftheAmericanSchoolsofOrientalResearchSupplementary Studies BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research BBRSup BulletinforBiblicalResearchSupplement BCAW BlackwellCompanionstotheAncientWorld BCNH BibliothèquecoptedeNagHammadi BD BibleinDialogue