Children in the Bible and the ancient world : comparative and historical methods in reading ancient children /: comparative and historical methods in reading ancient children. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Shawn W. Flynn.
• Editors: Flynn, Shawn W
• Contents: List of contributors Foreword Part I: Children in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Chapter 1 Vows and Children in the Hebrew Bible Heath D. Dewrell Chapter 2 Turning Birth into Theology: Traces of Ancient Obstetric Knowledge within Narratives of Difficult Childbirth in the Hebrew Bible Claudia D. Bergmann Chapter 3 Uncooperative Breeders: Parental Investment and Infant Abandonment in Hebrew and Greek Narrative David A. Bosworth Chapter 4 Failure to Marry: Girling Gone Wrong Kristine Henriksen Garroway Part II: Children in Christian Writings and the Greco-Roman World Chapter 5 Girls and Goddesses: The Gospel of Mark and the Eleusinian Mysteries Sharon Betsworth Chapter 6 Children and Church: The Ritual Entry of Children into Pauline Churches John W. Martens Chapter 7 "Stay away from my children!": Educators and the Accusation of Sexual Abuse in Roman Antiquity Christian Laes Part III: Children and Material Culture Chapter 8 I Bless You by YHWH of Samaria and His Barbie: A Case for Understanding Judean Pillar Figurines as Children’s Toys Julie Faith Parker Chapter 9 Coming of Age at St Stephen’s: Bioarchaeology of Children at a Byzantine Jerusalem Monastery (5th –7th Centuries CE) Susan G. Sheridan Afterword Chapter 10 Protoevangelium of James, Menstruating Mary, and Twenty-First-Century Adolescence: Purity, Liminality, and the Sexual Female Doris M. Kieser
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 220.830523; Children -- Biblical teaching; Children in the Bible; Children -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351006088; 9781351006095; 9781351006071; 9781351006101
• Related ISBNs: 9781138543768
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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