Jewish education in the time of jesus?

Answer 1

Children didnt hve very good education because there was schools in jesus's time and the teachers werent very smart either so............ .Taylah.f n eliza.davies n Angy.mantle n taite.evans was here 2010

Answer 2

A lot more then they do now. Parents in Roman times typically taught their children everything that they knew, as there was generally no established education system. In Jewish culture a boy would typically learn the scriptural texts, and be able to recite the Torah (first 5 books of The Bible). Unilke today, fathers took a primary role in the education of their children, which was focused on basic litteracy, religion, culture and trade.

Sons would typically work with their fathers and spend lots of time in close proximity with each other. Daughters would typically spend a lot of time with their mothers and assist them with farming, gathering, preparing food and domestic duties. This close proximity relationship formed much of a child's education, and played an important role in character development.

Answer 3

A:Literacy was not needed in traditional societies in the first century and few children had any sort of schooling at all. Historians have established that most peasants and village artisans were so grindingly poor that real hunger was an ever-present problem, and most children were expected to work, not study.

Rabbinic sources support evidence that the literacy rate in Palestine at this time was less than 3 per cent, which demonstrates that education was limited to the children of those who could afford such a luxury. John Dominic Crossan (The Birth of Christianity) notes that Jesus was a peasant from a peasant village and therefore, for Crossan, Jesus was illiterate until the opposite is proven. He says it is not proven but simply presumed by Luke, when he has Jesus read from the prophet Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth in 4:16-20.

The Apostle Paul was a Jew who had learnt to write and was one of those fortunate enough to be born into a family that could afford an education for him. No doubt he was taught by a scribe, possibly in a Jewish religious school. Acts of the Apostles says that he was actually taught by the famed Gamaliel in Jerusalem, but scholars doubt that Paul really spent time in Jerusalem during the lifetime of Jesus.

Answer 4

Even before the time Jesus is said to have lived, free public education was made available to children in ancient Israel. These schools were initially set up by the Priests.

Answer 5

They were taught at home by their mothers or other women in the house.