Education (i.e, the passing of any form of information) is not limited only to the field of writing but also to the oral transmission of information. Hence, when one wants to understand education in biblical Israel, and later on in the Jewish world, one must create a divide between literacy and the overall principle of information. Therefore, in this article we will have to create a theoretical but necessary division between “traditional” education and its latter development, canonical/written education. I say canonical because our focus here is on the education of literacy and the study of the bible.
