Andrew W. Pitts is an Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Arizona Christian University, USA.Matthew Ryan Hauge is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Azusa Pacific University in California, USA.

The essays in this volume offer fresh perspectives on ancient education and the NT. They endorse a novel and promising approach to the sources of early Christianity, contributing to an understanding of its nature and course.

• Preface Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Matthew Ryan Hauge & Andrew W. Pitts Part I: Educational Contexts and Settings2. The Torah versus Homer: Jewish and Graeco-RomanCatherine Hezser, SOAS, University of London, UK3. Exodus from the Cave: Moses as Platonic EducatorCraig Evan Anderson, Claremont School of Theology in California, USA4. Observing a Teacher of ProgymnasmataRonald F. Hock, University of Southern California, USA5. The Seven Sages, The Delphic Canon and Ethical Education in AntiquityJames R. Harrison, Sydney College of Divinity, AustraliaPart II: Early Christian Appropriations6. Fabulous Parables: The Storytelling Tradition in the Synoptic GospelsMatthew Ryan Hauge, Azusa Pacific University, USA7. The Origins of Greek Mimesis, Ancient Education, and Gospel of Mark: Genre as a Potential Constraint in Assessing Markan ImitationAndrew W. Pitts, Arizona Christian University, USA8. Luke and Progymnasmata: Rhetorical Handbooks, Rhetorical Sophistication and Genre SelectionSean A. Adams, University of Glasgow, UK9. Luke's Antetextuality in Light of Ancient Rhetorical EducationDennis R. MacDonald, Claremont School of Theology in California, USA10. A School pf Paul? The Use of Pauline Texts in Early Christian Schooltext PapyriJennifer R. Strawbridge, University of Oxford, UK11. How Did the 'Teaching' Teach? The Didache as CatechesisWilliam Varner, The Master's College, USA