Multiple Teachers in Biblical Texts

On the one hand there is a hot discussion on learning nowadays. On the

other hand, in theological research, the interest in initiation and

mystagogy as an ongoing process of learning, has been studied for the

past decades: the initiated one is taught and he/she is therefore part

of a teacher-disciple-process. This evokes the question whether

relations and communication, especially between teacher and pupil, can

be found in the Bible as well. Either implicitly or explicitly, the

roles of teacher and disciple are a part of biblical traditions,

although often neglected in biblical exegesis. This volume explores the

roles of teacher and disciple from a textual perspective. Various

biblical texts from the Torah, the Psalms, the Prophets, the Wisdom

Literature, the Gospels, and the Letters as well as the Rabbinic

Literature are dealt with. A reflection on religious teachers from the

perspective of biblical teaching and discipleship concludes this volume.