Videos are available from a colloquium held at Heythrop College, University of London from 29th-30th July 2016 on the topic of literacy and education in the ancient world: “Bookish Circles: Teaching and learning in the ancient Mediterranean”.
Friday 29th July 2016
Jonathan Norton, Director of the Heythrop Centre for Textual Studies, Introduction
Sacha Stern, University College London, “Literacy, teaching and learning in Rabbinic Judaism”
Jonathan Gorsky, Heythrop College London, “Torah piety: The development of Torah learning as a focal religious endeavour” [no video]
Ingo Kottsieper, Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster, “Literacy and Aramaic as written language in the Achaemenid Empire”
James K. Aitken, University of Cambridge, “Learning among Jewish social groups in Ptolemaic Egypt”
Joan Taylor, King’s College London, “4Q341: A Writing Exercise Remembered”
Saturday 30th July 2016
Sean Adams, University of Glasgow, “Sympotic learning: Symposia literature and cultural education”
Sean Ryan, Heythrop College London, “Greco-Roman education, ‘mental libraries’, and the Book of Revelation”
Steve Smith, University of Chichester, “Reading the New Testament in the Context of Other Texts: a Relevance Theory Perspective”
Jonathan Norton, “…not beyond what is written: How Paul uses literacy to manipulate social differential”
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