ABSTRACT

Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive and accessible survey of religious and philosophical teaching and classroom practices in the ancient world. H. Gregory Snyder synthesizes a wide range of ancient evidence and modern scholarship to address such questions as how the literary practices of Jews and Christians compared to the literary practices of the philosophical schools and whether Christians were particularly noteworthy for their attatchment to scripture.
Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World will be of interest to students of classics, ancient history, the early Christian world and Jewish studies.

chapter |13 pages

General Introduction

chapter 1|31 pages

“Not Subjects of a Despot”: Stoics

chapter 3|27 pages

A Library Lost and Found: Peripatetics

chapter 4|29 pages

Books Beneath a Plane Tree: Platonists

chapter 5|96 pages

Jewish and Christian Groups

chapter |10 pages

General Conclusions