The Library of Second Temple Studies (LSTS) is a premier book series that offers cutting-edge work for a readership of scholars, teachers in the field of Second Temple studies, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. All the many and diverse aspects of Second Temple study are represented and promoted, including innovative work from historical perspectives, studies using social-scientific and literary theory, and developing theological, cultural and contextual approaches.<BR><BR>History reveals that colonizers made use of education systems to propagate their cultural values, ethos, and lifestyle among the colonized. The primary aim of colonial education programs was to create a separate class of people who were not only meek and suppliant in attitude towards the colonizers, but also felt a degree of loathing for their fellow citizens.<BR><BR>Rooting his argument in both biblical and non-biblical literature of the Second Temple Period, Royce M. Victor seeks to determine how education systems enabled Greek citizens, Hellenes, and Hellenistic Jews to function politically, ethnically, and economically within the larger Greek empire. Victor asserts that the action of such education systems was particularly prevalent in Judea, through the creation of a separate class of `Hellenized Jews' within the Jewish population. As a secondary theme Victor demonstrates the continuity of the role of the colonial education system in forming a class structure among the colonized by exploring the British education system introduced into colonial India in the early nineteenth century.