Jewish Childhood in the Roman World

ISBN-13: 9781107090170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 478 str.

Hagith Sivan

Opis

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. Explores the lives of minors both inside and outside the home.

Spis treści

Part I. Theories: 1. Theorizing the Jewish child; 2. Vagaries of childhood: from cradles to graves; 3. Bringing up boys; 4. Daughters: delight or dissension?; 5. Burdened at birth: the misbegotten and the malformed; Part II. Children in the Synagogue: 6. Visualizing the bible; 7. The painted children of the Dura Europos Synagogue; Part III. Autobiographies: 8. Sukkot in a cave (CE 135); 9. Passover in the port of Rome (Ostia c. CE 175); 10. Sabbath in Tiberias (c. 300); 11. The birth of a wandering Jewess (c. CE 415–435); Conclusion: the invention of Rabbinic childhood.