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    T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and the Biblical World by Parker, Julie Faith; Betsworth, Sharon;

    Series: T&T Clark Handbooks;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher T&T Clark
    • Date of Publication 24 April 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780567716583
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 234x154x28 mm
    • Weight 740 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 4 photographs to be included
    • 774

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    Long description:

    This ground-breaking volume examines the presentation and role of children in the ancient world, and specifically in ancient Jewish and Christian texts. With carefully commissioned chapters that follow chronological and canonical progression, a sequential reading of this book enables deeper appreciation of how understandings of children change over time.
    Divided into four sections, this handbook first offers an overview of key methodological approaches employed in the study of children in the biblical world, and the texts at hand. Three further sections examine crucial texts in which children or discussions of childhood are featured; presented along chronological lines, with sections on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, the Intertestamental Literature, and the New Testament and Early Christian Apocrypha. Relevant not only to biblical studies but also cross-disciplinary scholars interested in children in antiquity.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Tables and Illustrations
    List of Contributors
    Acknowledgments
    List of Abbreviations

    1. Introduction - Sharon Betsworth, Oklahoma City University, USA and Julie Faith Parker, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, USA

    Part One Orientation to the Field
    2. History of Research on Children in the Bible and the Biblical World: Past Developments, Present State-and Future Potential - Reidar Aasgaard
    3. Accessing Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Tools at the Intersection of Biblical Studies and Childhood Studies - Laurel W. Koepf Taylor

    Part Two Hebrew Bible
    4. Methodology: Who Is a Child and Where Do We Find Children in the Ancient Near East? - Kristine Henriksen Garroway
    5. The Logic of Sacrificing Firstborn Children - Heath D. Dewrell
    6. Children of Diaspora: The Cultural Politics of Identity and Diasporic Childhood in the Book of Esther - Dong Sung Kim
    7. Children in Proverbs, Proverbial Children - Ericka S. Dunbar and Kenneth N. Ngwa
    8. God as a Child in the Hebrew Bible? Playing with the Possibilities - Julie Faith Parker 155

    Part Three Intertextual Issues and Intertestamental Texts
    9. Children and the Memory of Traumatic Violence - Kathleen Gallagher Elkins
    10. A Road-Trip to Manhood: Tobias's Coming of Age in Tobit 6-12 - Stephen M. Wilson

    Part Four New Testament
    11. Methodology: Who Is a Child and Where Do We Find Children in the Greco-Roman World? - John W. Martens
    12. Children Playing in the Marketplaces - Sharon Betsworth
    13. "Theirs is the Kingdom": Children as Proprietors of the Kingdom of God in Luke 18:15-17 - Amy Lindeman Allen
    14. The "Lost Boys" (and Girls) of Q's "Neverland" - A. James Murphy
    15. Children, Parents, and God/Gods in Interreligious Roman Households and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:14 - Judith M. Gundry
    16. Fathers and Daughters in 1 Corinthians 7:36-38: The Social Implications of Marriage in EarlyChristian Families - John W. Martens

    Part Five Early Christian Apocrypha
    17. Absence and Presence of Children in the Apocryphal Acts - Anna Rebecca Solev?g
    18. Traveling with Children: Flight Stories and Pilgrimage Routes in the Apocryphal Infancy Gospels -Tony Burke

    Bibliography
    Scripture Index
    Ancient Source Index
    Subject Index

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