Doug Greenwold, back after a brief vacation, picks up where we left off with a discussion of the Jewish mind of Jesus’ day and alerting us to some of the cultural differences we need to understand in order to get the most from our study of Scripture …
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While young boys were sent to the local Synagogue school to memorize significant portions of the Hebrew Bible, the young girls stayed home and learned the domestic chores that would be part of their homemaker future.
Despite the lack of formal learning in the Hebrew Scriptures, females learned Scripture in at least two ways. From attending Sabbath services and hearing the schrolls read and from listening to the young boys recite their memorizations back and forth to each other during the week. This is an oral learning culture and each boy had a learning partner called a “haver” (hah-VAIR). As the boys walked the streets of the town reciting back and forth to each other that portion of Scripture they had memorized that day, the young girls could over hear them and become aquainted with significant amounts of Scripture.
excellent information on memorization/oral teaching. I would guess that the mind didn’t wander in the time of Jesus like mine does today or at the very least they had a very trained mind. Was the female population also trained to memorize scripture?