Ancient Education and Early Christianity

Andrew W. Pitts is an Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Arizona Christian University, USA. Matthew Ryan Hauge is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Azusa Pacific University in California, USA.

Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Matthew Ryan Hauge & Andrew W. Pitts

Part I: Educational Contexts and Settings
2. The Torah versus Homer: Jewish and Graeco-Roman
Catherine Hezser, SOAS, University of London, UK
3. Exodus from the Cave: Moses as Platonic Educator
Craig Evan Anderson, Claremont School of Theology in California, USA
4. Observing a Teacher of Progymnasmata
Ronald F. Hock, University of Southern California, USA
5. The Seven Sages, The Delphic Canon and Ethical Education in Antiquity
James R. Harrison, Sydney College of Divinity, Australia

Part II: Early Christian Appropriations
6. Fabulous Parables: The Storytelling Tradition in the Synoptic Gospels
Matthew Ryan Hauge, Azusa Pacific University, USA
7. The Origins of Greek Mimesis, Ancient Education, and Gospel of Mark: Genre as a Potential Constraint in Assessing Markan Imitation
Andrew W. Pitts, Arizona Christian University, USA
8. Luke and Progymnasmata: Rhetorical Handbooks, Rhetorical Sophistication and Genre Selection
Sean A. Adams, University of Glasgow, UK
9. Luke's Antetextuality in Light of Ancient Rhetorical Education
Dennis R. MacDonald, Claremont School of Theology in California, USA
10. A School pf Paul? The Use of Pauline Texts in Early Christian Schooltext Papyri
Jennifer R. Strawbridge, University of Oxford, UK
11. How Did the 'Teaching' Teach? The Didache as Catechesis
William Varner, The Master's College, USA