Pastors and Missionaries interested in consultation on
establishing school work in their ministry mail.
Haggadah Catenae Beth-midrash = to relate extracts of
ecclesiastical writers about "Houses of Explanation".
"The Company of Prophets"
Public meetings of learned men: "Where there are ten
men whose occupations do not prevent them from devoting their whole time to
sacred learning; a house for their meetings must be built"
I.
Private tutors:
1. Children taught
by parents.
2. Children of kings
had tutors.
3. Host of sages and
learned men.
4. John the herald
of Jesus, teacher of his nation.
5. Apostle Paul
taught many nations and ages.
6. Today religious
institutions of higher learning.
II.
Past Traditions: "A Company of Prophets" I Samuel
10:5,6 9 (chebel) (verb)
1. A measuring line.
2. A district or
inheritance as measured.
3. A company as if
tied together
4. To wind tightly
as a rope.
5. To bind
especially by a pledge.
6. To travail
1.
Soon after the Babylonian exile assemblies of the learned
not only existed but also had increased to a considerable extent.
2.
Not only took place at Jerusalem but Galilee, Idumea,
Lebanon and heathen countries.
3.
Meeting places were connected to synagogues, after worship
and reading met in upper apartment.
4.
Beth-midrash academic lectures were for higher students who
aspired to fill in time the place of teachers themselves.
5.
These companies were likened to academies or learned
societies of Greece and Rome.
6.
Assemblies of the wise proposed questions more suited to
the sacred.
7.
These companies selected their president capable of
partaking in a discussion on some proposed learned question.
8.
Pupils were men or youths of more or less advanced
education to profit by listening to the learned discussions, to participate in
them themselves, paving the way and preparing themselves for the office of the
presidency at some future time.
9.
These meetings were public to admit anyone and allowing
proposed questions.
10.
Subjects: 1. Songs in which audience joined in. 2. Learned
members delivered their thoughts and opinions on a certain proposed question.
3. Adages: an old saying or proverb. 4. Solutions of obscure questions and
problems, enigmas: a perplexing, baffling, no explanation matter, persons,
statements, etc. 5. Preserved remains of the olden times by collecting and
writing them down.
11.
Assemblies and meetings were still in existence in the
times of Christ and his apostles: Col. 2:8: "beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, after the
rudiments of the world and not after Christ." I Tim. 1:1-7, 4:7, 6:4, 20
12.
Ambitious views of sages on whose character depended to
shine and to say something new and original.
13.
There was bantering and quarrels among little Jewish
academies and literary societies.
III.
Present teaching: "school" Acts 19:9 (schole)
(derivative of verb)