This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by

Engage fourteen essays from an international group of experts There is little direct evidence for formal education in the Bible and in the texts of Second Templ

Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.

Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell, drawing connections to Greek and Roman systems of education, and examini