Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Context Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Edited by Carl R. Holladay, Matthias Konradt, Hermann Lichtenberger, Judith Lieu, Jens Schröter and Gregory E. Sterling Volume 228 Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Context Edited by Jason M. Zurawski and Gabriele Boccaccini ISBN 978-3-11-054606-4 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-054697-2 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-054611-8 ISSN 0171-6441 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.dnb.de abrufbar. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Contents Jason M. Zurawski and Gabriele Boccaccini Introduction: Perspectives on Second Temple Jewish Paideia from the Fifth Nangeroni Meeting 1 Jewish Education in Palestine William M. Schniedewind Scribal Education in Ancient Israel and Judah into the Persian Period 11 Frank Ueberschaer Jewish Education in Ben Sira 29 Samuel L. Adams Reassessing the Exclusivism of Ben Sira’s Jewish Paideia 47 Elisa Uusimäki The Formation of a Sageaccording to Ben Sira 59 Matthew Goff Students of God in the House of Torah: Education in the Dead Sea Scrolls 71 Jewish Education in the Diaspora Benjamin G. Wright Greek Paideia and the Jewish Community of Alexandria in the Letter of Aristeas 93 Luca Arcari The Testament of Orpheus, Aristobulus, and the Derveni Papyrus: Between “Didactic” Hymnography and Alexandrian Exegesis 113 VI Contents Patrick Pouchelle Discipline, Transmission, and Writing: Notes on Education in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 131 Gregory E. Sterling The School of Moses in Alexandria: An Attempt to Reconstruct the School of Philo 141 Sean A. Adams Philo’s Questions and the Adaptation of Greek Philosophical Curriculum 167 Anders Klostergaard Petersen Dissolving the Philosophy-Religion Dichotomy in the Context of Jewish Paideia: Wisdom of Solomon, 4 Maccabees, and Philo 185 David A. deSilva The Author of 4 Maccabees and Greek Paideia: Facets of the Formation of a Hellenistic Jewish Rhetor 205 Kathy Ehrensperger Embodying the Ways in Christ: Paul’s Teaching of the Nations 239 Jason von Ehrenkrook Christians, Pagans, and the Politics ofPaideia in Late Antiquity 255 Jason M. Zurawski Jewish Education and Identity: Towards an Understanding of Second Temple Paideia 267 Index of Modern Authors 279 Index of Ancient Sources 285 Jason M. Zurawski and Gabriele Boccaccini Introduction: Perspectives on Second Temple Jewish Paideia from the Fifth Nangeroni Meeting Despite the incredible strides made in the past century in the understandingof SecondTempleJudaismandthestrongscholarlyinterestinGreekandChristian paideiaandtheirrelationshipfollowingtheworkofWernerJaeger,¹thenatureof Jewishpaideiaduringtheperiodhasremainedelusive.Comparedtothescholar- shiponIsraeliteeducationpriortotheBabylonianexileandonthedevelopment oftheJewishacademiesinlaterrabbinictimes,²thehistoryofresearchonpost- exiliceducation hasbeen surprisingly meager. Earlyresearch sufferedfromsig- nificant methodological problems, most seriously the uncritical use of rabbinic literature to describe Jewish education centuries earlier.³ This led to several anachronisticpresuppositions,suchasthecommonclaimofauniversalschool system throughout Hellenistic and Roman Judea.  WernerJaeger,Paideia:DieFormungdesgriechischenMenschen,3vols.(Berlin:deGruyter, 1934–47),translatedintoEnglishasPaideia:TheIdealsofGreekCulture,3vols.(Oxford:Black- well,1939–45);EarlyChristianityandGreekPaideia(Cambridge,MA:BelknapPressofHarvard University Press,1961). See also Henri Irénée Marrou, Histoire de l’éducation dans l’antiquité (Paris: Le Seuil, 1948), translated into English as A History of Education in Antiquity (New York:SheedandWard,1956),esp.314ff.  OnancientIsraeliteeducation,seethereviewsofthepertinentliteratureinJamesL.Cren- shaw, “Education in Ancient Israel,” JBL104 (1985):601–615; Graham I. Davies, “Werethere schools in ancient Israel,” in Wisdom in Ancient Israel, ed. John Day, Robert P.Gordon, and H.G.M.Williamson(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1995),199–211;andJamesL.Cren- shaw, EducationinAncientIsrael:Acrossthe Deadening Silence(New York: Doubleday,1998), 4–5note6.Ontherabbinicside,see,e.g.,BenTsiyonRozenfeldandChavaCassel,TorahCen- tersandRabbinicActivityinPalestine,70–400CE:HistoryandGeographicDistribution(Leiden: Brill,2010);RobertBrody,TheGeonimofBabyloniaandtheShapingofMedievalJewishCulture (NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,1998).  SeeFletcherHarperSwift,EducationinAncientIsraelfromEarliestTimesto70A.D.(Chicago: TheOpenCourtPublishingCompany,1919);NathanDrazin,HistoryofJewishEducationfrom515 B.C.E.to220C.E.(DuringthePeriodsoftheSecondCommonwealthandtheTannaim),TheJohns Hopkins University Studies in Education 29 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1940); Ernest Simon, “Hebrew Education in Palestine,” The Journal of Educational Sociology 22.3 (Nov. 1948):190–205;EliezerEbner,ElementaryEducationinAncientIsraelduringtheTannaiticPeriod (10–220CE)(NewYork:Bloch,1956);ShmuelSafrai,“EducationandtheStudyoftheTorah,”in TheJewishPeopleintheFirstCentury,ed.S.SafraiandM.Stern,CRINT(Assen:VanGorcum, 1976),2:945–70. DOI10.1515/9783110546972-001 2 JasonM.ZurawskiandGabrieleBoccaccini More recent scholarship has often focused on individual texts, authors, or corpora. There have been several important studies on, for example, the role of the Greek preliminary studies in the thought of Philo of Alexandria,⁴ and views on Jewish education as related to Ben Sira or the Dead Sea Scrolls have long been a standard aspect of their respective research fields.⁵ Studies on the textsoftheNewTestamentinlightofGreco-Romaneducationhavealsobecome popular in recent years.⁶ Attempts at a more comprehensive picture of Second Temple Jewish education have been rare,⁷ yet weare now beginning towitness  See Alan Mendelson, Secular Education in Philo of Alexandria, Monographs of the Hebrew UnionCollege7(Cincinnati:HebrewUnionCollegePress,1982),amongseveralothers.  OnBenSira,seeinparticularMartinLöhr,BildungausdemGlauben.BeiträgezumVerständ- nisderLehrredendesBuchesJesusSirach(Dissertation;Bonn1975);HelgeStadelmann,BenSira alsSchriftgelehrter:EineUntersuchungzumBerufsbilddesvor-MakkabäischenSöferunterBerück- sichtigungseinesVerhältnisseszuPriester-,Propheten-undWeisheitslehretum,WUNT2/6(Tübin- gen:MohrSiebeck,1981);OdaWischmeyer,DieKulturdesBuchesJesusSirach,BZNW77(Berlin: deGruyter,1995);FrankUeberschaer,WeisheitausderBegegnung:BildungnachdemBuchBen Sira,BZAW379(Berlin:deGruyter,2008).AndontheDeadSeaScrolls,see,e.g.,CarolNewsom, “TheSageintheLiteratureofQumran:TheFunctionsoftheMaśkîl,”inTheSageinIsraeland theAncientNearEast,ed.JohnG.GammieandLeoG.Perdue(WinonaLake,IN:Eisenbrauns, 1990),373–382;StevenD.Fraade,“InterpretiveAuthorityintheStudyingCommunityatQum- ran,”JJS44(1993):46–69;EmanuelTov,“TheScribesoftheTextsFoundintheJudeanDesert,” in The Quest for Context and Meaning: Studies in Biblical Intertextuality in Honor of James A. Sanders,ed.C.A.EvansandS.Talmon(Leiden:Brill,1997),131–152;Tov,“TheTextoftheHe- brew/AramaicandGreekBibleUsedintheAncientSynagogues,”inTheAncientSynagoguefrom ItsOriginsuntil200C.E.PapersPresentedatanInternationalConferenceatLundUniversity,Oc- tober14–17, 2001,ed.BirgerOlssonandMagnus Zetterholm(Stockholm:Almqvist&Wiksell, 2003), 237–259; Armin Lange, “In Diskussion mit dem Temple: Zur Auseinandersetzung zwi- schen Kohelet undweisheitlichen Kreisen am Jerusalemer Tempel,” in Qohelet in the Context of Wisdom, ed. A. Schoors (Louvain: Peeters,1998),113–159; and Bilhah Nitzan, “Education andWisdomintheDeadSeaScrollsinLightoftheirBackgroundinAntiquity,”inNewPerspec- tivesonOldTexts.ProceedingsoftheTenthInternationalSymposiumoftheOrionCenterforthe StudyoftheDeadSeaScrollsandAssociatedLiterature,9–11January,2005,ed.EstherG.Chazon andBetsyHalpern-Amaru,STDS88(Leiden:Brill,2010),97–116.  SeethestudiesofSamuelByrskog,JesustheOnlyTeacher:DidacticAuthorityandTransmis- sion in Ancient Israel, Ancient Judaism, and the Matthean Community, Coniectanea Biblica: New TestamentSeries (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell,1994); Robert S. Dutch, The Educated Elite in 1 Corinthians: Education and Community Conflict in Graeco-Roman Context (London: T&TClark,2005);AdamG.White,WhereistheWiseMan?Graeco-RomanEducationasaBack- groundtotheDivisionsin1Corinthians1–4(London:T&TClark,2010);andMatthewRyanHauge andAndrewW.Pitts,eds.,AncientEducationandEarlyChristianity(London:T&TClark,2016).  DavidCarr’swork,WritingontheTabletoftheHeart(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2005),is probablythemostthorough,buthisfocusonthetextualityoftheBibleleadshimvieweduca- tiononlythroughthisnarrowlens. Introduction 3 ashiftandagrowinginterestinJewishpaideiamorebroadly,withseveralrecent doctoral dissertations, conferences, and research groups exploring the subject from different methodological angles.⁸ ItiswithinthiscontextthattheFifthNangeroniMeetinggatheredfromJune 30toJuly4,2015inNaples,Italy,attheinvitationoftheEnochSeminarandthe UniversityofNaplesFedericoII,andwiththesupportoftheFIRBresearchproj- ect under the direction of Luca Arcari: “The Construction of Space and Time in theTransmission ofCollectiveIdentities.ReligiousCohabitationsand/or Polari- zations in the Ancient World (1st–6th cent.CE).” The meeting was made up of eight major paper sessions, each of which featured a brief introduction by the author, a ten-minute response, and seventy minutes of moderated discussion. Therewerealsothreeshortpapersessions.AllsessionswereheldattheUniver- sityofNaplesFedericoIIwith theexceptionoftheclosingsession onSaturday, whichtookplaceinthethirteenth-centurycastleMaschioAngioino.Inaddition, theparticipantsandtheirguestshadthechancetovisitPompeiiandtheNaples Archaeological Museum. Foundedin2001byGabrieleBoccaccini,theEnochSeminarisanopenand inclusiveforumofinternationalspecialistsinSecondTempleJudaismandChris- tian Origins. Scholars with different methodologies and approaches and at var- ious stages of their academic careers, meet and share the results of their re- search, addressing topics of common interest. Since 2011, the Nangeroni Meetings,promotedbytheEnochSeminarwiththesponsorshipoftheMichigan Center for Early Christian Studies and the Alessandro Nangeroni International Endowment, have offered the opportunity for additional gatherings on specific topicsinJewish,Christian,andIslamicOrigins.Theclosednatureofthesemeet- ings ensures an environment where the participants are free to share work in progress and to collaborate on inchoate ideas.⁹ ThescholarswhogatheredinNaples,eachanexpertinvariousfacetsofthe subject,camewiththesharedgoalnottotrytolocatesomesortofnormativeor  Atthe2012,2013,and2014SocietyofBiblicalLiteratureannualmeetings,theWisdomand Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity group offered several sessions on early Jewish and Christian paideia, the results of which will be published later this year as From Musar to Paideia: Pedagogy in Early Judaism and Christianity,ed. Matthew Goff, Karina Martin Hogan, and Emma Wasserman (Atlanta: SBL, forthcoming). Additionally, a recent re- search group has been formedwithin the Courant Research Centre “Education and Religion” attheUniversityofGöttingen,ledbyTobiasGeorgesandtitled“PietyandPaideia.ReligiousTra- ditionsandIntellectualCultureintheWorldoftheRomanEmpire,”thoughtheirfocusisonthe secondandthirdcenturiesCEratherthantheSecondTempleperiod.  Detailed and updated information on the Enoch Seminar and the Nangeroni Meetings are availableonlineatwww.enochseminar.organdwww.4enoch.org. 4 JasonM.ZurawskiandGabrieleBoccaccini common notion of Jewish education during the period, but to move towards a greater overall understanding by allowing the diversity of views to stand and speak for themselves. The choice of the Greek term paideia instead of simply “education” in the titleoftheconferenceandthisvolumeistellingofthesignificanceofthesubject beyondwhatwemaytypicallyassociatewithpedagogicalorcurricularmatters. The term referred most basically to “education,” but it was much more. Plato wouldarguethatpaideiawasnotsomesimpletraininginaskilloroccupation, but rather training in virtue and the means to becoming a cultured individual and true citizen (Leg. 1.643e). Thus, paideia could refer at once to the process ofeducationandtheendresultofculture.TakinguptheideafirstfoundinIso- crates(Panegyr.50),thatitwasasharedpaideiaratherthanasharedbloodline thatmadeanindividualtrulyGreek,philosophersandrhetorsoftheHellenistic andRomanperiodsunderstoodpaideiaasa—maybeeventhe—definingcharac- teristicofsocialandculturalidentity.¹⁰Whilewemustnotassumeaperfectcor- respondencebetweensuchGreekandRomanattitudesandthoseofJewsinthe diaspora,letaloneinJudea,theydooftenreflectthevaluesplacedonaproper Jewisheducationfoundintheliterature,whetherthetermusedispaideiaornot. ThepapersofferedfordiscussioninNaplesandrevisedforthepresentvol- ume highlight well the importance of the concept for understanding the wider world of thought of the individual authors and the social and cultural lives of theJewishpeopleduringtheperiod.Theyalsovividlydemonstratethenecessity of collaboration and interdisciplinary dialogue in attempting to grasp such a foundational and multi-faceted topic as Jewish education. The essays have been divided along geographical lines, those that deal with texts or authors from the diaspora and those from Judea.This organizational strategy, however, isnotmeanttoinsinuatethatsuchadividenecessarilyexisted,whetherinideol- ogy or practice. Parallels and/or differences cannot be assumed but, instead, must be evaluated on an individual basis.  See,e.g., Ps.-Plutarch, Lib. Educ. 5c–e.The connection between paideia and identity has been highlighted by Yun Lee Too, The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates:Text, Power, Pedagogy (Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1995);Jan-JaapFlinterman,Power,Paideia&Pythagor- eanism:GreekIdentity,ConceptionsoftheRelationshipBetweenPhilosophers&Monarchs&Po- liticalIdeasinPhilostratus’LifeofApollonius,DutchMonographsonAncientHistoryandArchae- ology 13 (Leiden: Brill,1995);Teresa Morgan, Literate Educationin the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1998);SimonGoldhill,ed.,BeingGreekunder Rome:CulturalIdentity,theSecondSophisticandtheDevelopmentofEmpire(Cambridge:Cam- bridgeUniversityPress,2001);TimWhitmarsh,GreekLiteratureandtheRomanEmpire:ThePol- iticsofImitation(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2001);andidem.,NarrativeandIdentityinthe AncientGreekNovel:ReturningRomance(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2011).