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Title: Ancient Jewish Political Thought and the Legacy of Isocrates

By: James R. Muir

Date: 1997

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show that an accurate understanding of the nature of ancient Jewish education requires that we recover a clearer appreciation for the way normative intentions of such education were derived from a theologico-political doctrine and the way this derivation presupposed the proto-Isocratic idea of the nature of education. As the formulation of the purpose of this paper suggests, my argument takes the relationship between the history of Jewish political thought and the history of classical Greek educational thought as its point of departure.