...Jack Miles deSilva David A. , The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 ), 343 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Jack Miles; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 deSilva David A. , The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 ), 343 pp. ...

... an account of just such a standard. Yet her argument that “other than pointing and hoping, there are no rules, no algorithms, by which human perception of a gestalt may be facilitated” sells the work of teachers short. An alternative case is made by Plato in his representation of Socrates-as-teacher...

... on a new question raised in this latest grouping of articles. Can there be such a thing as a “ mezza voce quietism”? Can there be activist quietists or quietist activists or active teachers of quietism without self-contradiction? Perl takes Gandhi and “passive resistance” as his own test case, concluding...

... the process by which one teacher put together an online course. Several essays articulate the doubts that professors sometimes feel about their task—doubts that may lead to moving connections with students, who also feel doubt. The introduction suggests that descriptions of specific classroom experiences...

...Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham This memorial tribute reflects on the personal and intellectual qualities of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007), who was the author's teacher. Higginbotham says that her first impressions of Fox-Genovese, formed in a graduate seminar in European history at the University...

... the debates between these and more activist tendencies. Raz goes on to show how these became unified in a nondualist approach in the writings and teachings of prominent Chinese and Japanese teachers from the beginning of Zen (Chan) in China down to the twentieth century. Duke University Press 2010...

... economics would have taught the modern world enough lessons to assure that economic intelligence would have tightened the reins of investors and speculators over the last decade of runaway optimism. But history has never been a good teacher—better said, people have rarely been good students of history's...

..., Toulmin's teacher and a lover of Tolstoy. All three men understood philosophy as having taken a wrong turn with the rise of rationalism, which occasioned to the idea that social life could be shown to conform to a hard science modeled on Newtonian physics. They saw the dream of a social science as entirely...

... popular and unsupported claim that the humanities have practical relevance and, instead, to offer ruminative descriptions of what happens when teachers and students meet to discuss texts and objects. She explains that the essays report in detail on five individual classes in five very different academic...

...Caroline Walker Bynum The historian Caroline Walker Bynum, who solicited and organized this set of five case studies, explains in her afterword that one intention behind the series is to stimulate other teachers, as well as students, of the humanities to write similar ethnographies of the classroom...

... the professional and pedagogical challenges involved in organizing the class and the strategies employed to encourage critical reflection and historical thinking among the students. In addition, the author explores his own insecurities as a teacher and explains the means that, over many years of teaching...

... from discussion of current Israeli politics and the power relations between teachers and students. historiography teacher-student relations Roll of Ahimaaz Jewish Chronicles of the Crusades academic “Ethics Code” of Israel Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Caroline Walker Bynum; Jeffrey M. Perl This essay is a parable that delivers a message of epistemological significance for teachers and students in historically based disciplines and religious studies. Bynum writes, anecdotally, of standing “for a long time” and “rejoicing” before Vermeer’s...

... Academy Reprints for Teaching ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press in association with the Medieval Academy of America , 1997 ), 384 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 In 1968, Lester Little (one of the great undergraduate teachers of the last century) and Jerome Taylor...

.... But theoretical discourse, derivative and secondary, proves vapid without the fiction, poetry, and drama from which it derived and on which it survives. Recognizing the rare power to be found in the works themselves and nowhere else, it is to those works that teachers must somehow return. Only...

... generations.can across chains thought such of Few schools of development the channel that pupils and teachers eminent of chains the is no longer creative. We see the same pattern in terms of intellectual networks, thatpast the from orthodoxy an of stagnation,reign of the creativitybut of not numbers.” When only...

... the fragility of lives affected by persuasive contests: A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning...

... a gentile As (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012),343pp. What EarliestChristianityLearnedfrom theApocryphaandPseudepigrapha David A.deSilva, TheJewish Teachers of Jesus, James, andJude: doi 10.1215/0961754X-3131171 learner. This is rhetorical synecdoche rather than historical reconstruction...

... than to Cesare Ripa’s Cesare to than (one owed whose history moreart suspected) to connoisseurs for the rigors of Warburgian iconography. Some of my Cambridge teachers were...