Teaching and Learning the Norms of Life and Faith

This volume explores educational practices within the three major monotheistic religions, cultures, traditions, and languages. Through case studies, the contributors illustrate how Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions shaped educational ideals, fostered scholarly communities, and guided students through structured curricula. They examine the role of literate elites in transmitting classical knowledge and patristic authority, and how pedagogical legacies contributed to spiritual development and responded to social and religious crises. Aimed at scholars of history, religion, and humanities, students and general readers, this collection of essays offers valuable insights into the enduring and evolving nature of pedagogical values across diverse historical contexts, and features profiles of influential educators such as rabbis, church fathers, exegetes, mystics, jurists, and polymaths.

Born 1985; 2016 PhD from Georg August University of Göttingen; 2021 venia legendi (habilitation) from Franzens University of Graz, Austria; Research Professor in Church History at the Romanian Academy in Bucharest; Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization.

Matthew Goff : The Expansive Wisdom of a Great Sage: Is There a Book of Ben Sira in Rabbinic Literature? - Andrei A. Orlov : Negative Pedagogy in the Apocalypse of Abraham - Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert : A Rabbinic Paideia: The Ethics of Moderation in Pirkei Avot - Hagith Sivan : Education or Indoctrination? How to Fashion Female (Illi)Literacy in Jewish (and Christian) Late Antiquity - Jennifer Hart Weed : Maimonides' Pedagogical Principles: A Guide for the Perplexed - Ephraim Kanarfogel : R. Jacob b. Meir Tam: The Virtuoso Teacher of the Tosafists - Jon A. Levisohn : Teaching and Learning the Norms of Judaism Beyond the Beit Midrash - Judd Kruger Levingston : Your Children are Your Builders: Moral Education and Play in Jewish Education - Martin Meiser : Divine and Human Education in Patristic Literature: An Overview - Samuel Fernández : The Pedagogical Factor in the Outbreak of the Arian Crisis - Jonathan Farrugia : The Preacher as Teacher: Gregory of Nyssa as an Educator of Faith and Behaviour through His Homilies - Harri Huovinen : The Pedagogy of Spiritual Vision in the Catechetical Homilies of John Chrysostom - Ephräm Givi Lomidze : Georgian Monastic Centres of Learning in the Mediaeval Period: Inspiration and Impulse for Today - Mara Nicosia : Antony of Tagrit and His Teaching: Patristic Quotations in the Treatise On Rhetoric - Catalin-Stefan Popa : Ascesis as Monastic Pedagogy in 10th Century Iraq: The Case of the Life of Joseph Busnaya - Mane Ghevondyan : Armenian Christian Textbooks of the 17-18th Centuries - Luca Patrizi : -d-b al---fiyya: The Literature on the Rules of Proper Spiritual Conduct in Sufism - Essam Ayyad : Between Students and Their Shaykhs: Questioning 'Authority' in Medieval Muslim Academia - Keren Abbou Hershkovits : Circulating Knowledge: Receiving, Transmitting and Employing, a Gendered Perspective - Mujadad Zaman : The Art of Learning and the Perfection of Its Aspect: Ibn Jam--ah on the Potential of Instructors and Learners - Ali B. Langroudi : A 14th-Century Writing Vademecum from Tabriz - Maryam Moazzen : Sayyid Shih-b al-D-n Mar-ash- Najaf-: A Bibliophile and Distinguished Marjä-i taqlid