Children in the Bible and the Ancient World: Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children

ISBN-13: 9781032178301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Shawn W. Flynn

Opis

Children in the Bible and the Ancient World is a helpful introduction to any who study children and childhood in the ancient world.

Spis treści

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; Section 3: 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 (5^th–7^th Centuries CE), Sue Sheridan; Afterword; Chapter 10, Protoevangelium of James, Menstruating Mary, and Twenty-First-Century Adolescence: Purity, Liminality, and the Sexual Female, Doris M. Kieser

O autorze

Shawn W. Flynn received a PhD in 2012 from the University of Toronto, Canada, in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. His first book was YHWH is King, published in Vetus Testamentum Supplements (2014); he also authored Children in Ancient Israel: The Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia in Comparative Perspective (2018). In addition, A Story of YHWH: Cultural Translation and Subversive Reception in Israelite History is forthcoming(Routledge, 2019). He is currently an Associate Professor of the Hebrew Bible at St Joseph’s College, University of Alberta, Canada, and the Academic Dean of the College.