Classics

In the second century, Clement of Alexandria places the learners at the center of Christian-ethical instruction in his Paidagogos. Johanna A. Jürgens reconstructs their profile and, from there, explores the pedagogical implications of their central position for Clement's educational concept.

The contributors to this volume aim to situate the Priestly writings more precisely in time and place. They give special attention to choosing relevant criteria --such as geographic indicators and references to material culture within the texts themselves.

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.

Eric J. P. Wagner identifies and analyzes personified mountains in the Epic of Gilgameš, the Iliad and Odyssey, and Genesis-2 Kings. These »embodied landscapes« represent mythic thinking, inviting a re-reading that traces their meaning(s) and function(s) across each corpus.