Synagogue Schools

Education in first century Israel . . .

When a child was born into a pious Jewish home of the first century, his education began with this circumcision. Covenant, education, education in the love of God, for His people, was carefully bestowed in the warmth of a believing home. Not surprisingly, as Edersheim puts it, “The first education was necessarily the mother’s.” For faithful Jews, knowledge of the Law was to be taken in at the mother’s breast. Long before child could attend school, he was nourished and fed with the Word of God