XCV.

"They [Ellinistic Jews] all practiced a certain kind of Greek education. The Greek word paideia, ...means education, but it also means more than simply rote learning or memorization or learning to read, like we think. Paideia is the Greek word that means the formation of the young man. And I say young man because throughout all this it was mainly young men and boys who were educated. Girls could be given some education, if their families were wealthy enough, but the cities didn't really concern themselves so much with girls' education. Their family might, but the cities concerned themselves with the education of their boys. So paideia referred to the education of the young man, both mentally, but militarily — so you were taught to fight — and culturally; you might be taught other things about culture. You might even have some music training or something like that."

© Dale B. Martin
Yale Lectures on Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature
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