Classics

Featuring articles on influential figures such as esteemed teachers, rabbis, Church Fathers, exegetes, mystics, jurists, and polymaths, the present volume offers a comprehensive picture of how education was understood and practiced in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures across various historical periods.

How was religious education taught in one of the central institutions of emerging Christianity? The contributors to this volume examine late antique sermons from the Latin West, explore how biblical content and saints were addressed in them, and how questions of Christian ethics and faith were communicated.

Pliny the Younger, the author of a comprehensive epistolary collection and a panegyric speech for the emperor Trajan, enjoyed an extraordinary fortune in antiquity and subsequent periods. In recent years, Pliny has undergone a significant reappraisal - especially in literary studies. Apart from classical philology, he is of great interest for many other fields such as ancient history, epigraphy, archaeology, art history, visual studies, legal studies, sociology, comparative studies, gender studies as well as didactics and pedagogy. This volume, containing German and Italian contributions, offers new approaches to a 'classic' from a variety of different perspectives, taking into account a wide range of disciplines.

The contributors to this volume investigate the portrayal of Israel's and Judah's relations with neighboring groups in the books of Samuel (including the Philistines, Amalekites, Edomites, Arameans, and Gibeonites) through a combination of literary, historical, and archaeological perspectives.