2/26 34.] [Footnote 4: Jewish translations and commentaries of the Talmudic epoch.] The schoolmaster in the small Jewish towns was the _hazzan_, or reader in the synagogues.[1] Jesus frequented little the higher schools of the scribes or _sopherim_ (Nazareth had perhaps none of them), and he had none of those titles which confer, in the eyes of the vulgar, the privileges of knowledge.[2] It would, nevertheless, be a great error to imagine that Jesus was what we call ignorant. Scholastic education among us draws a profound distinction, in respect of personal worth, between those who have received and those who have been deprived of it. It was not so in the East, nor, in general, in the good old times. |