Blossom Stefaniw Christian Reading | sku-438191183

In Christian Reading: Language, Ethics, and the Order of Things (Edition 1), Blossom Stefaniw examines lesson transcripts from the Tura papyri that record oral classroom discourse. She argues that biblical study in these lessons was used to teach a traditional body of general knowledge about the world, rather than focusing solely on biblical content or religious instruction.

Her account compares Didymus the Blind's teaching with that of other late-antique grammarians, who used texts to help students understand their place in time, the world and their heritage. While those grammarians drew on authors such as Homer and Menander, Didymus used the Psalms and Ecclesiastes.

Stefaniw uses this classroom practice to propose a different account of how Christian scholarship related to the pagan past. This hardcover is listed in Christian Books & Bibles as sku-438191183.