Scholastic Communities definition
Scholastic Communities. A Study of the Vocabulary of “Teaching” in 1 Corinthians, 1 and 2 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇, WUNT 2/335 (Tübingen: ▇▇▇▇ Siebeck, 2012), 1-13. 55 ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Communities, 15-30. Pastorals that fall within the domain covered by her definition of teaching.56 Her reliance on this semantic domain allows her to investigate teaching and learning vocabulary (such as διδασκαλία and cognates), but she also investigates more marginal (and very common) lexemes like βούλομαι and θέλω. As such, the study provides little access to the structure and function of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ communities themselves. In fact, her most notable conclusion is that we should emend Judge’s appellation for ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ communities, calling them “learning communities” rather than “scholastic communities.”57 Perhaps if ▇▇▇▇▇ had given more attention to Greek or Roman discussions of education and integrated this into her cognitive-linguistic methodology—e.g., using the ancient authors and not modern dictionaries to form her definition of education—she would have been able to argue not just that learning took place in Paul’s communities, but that they resembled ancient schools. This would certainly have enabled her more thoroughly to evaluate Judge’s original hypothesis. Despite these qualifications, ▇▇▇▇▇ does demonstrate that the vocabulary of teaching and learning is intrinsic to the language of 1 Corinthians and the Pastorals, and this conclusion ought to lead us to investigate, wherever possible, the teaching and learning practices to which those texts refer.