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Sharon Betsworth and Julie F. Parker (eds.), T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and the Biblical World (London: T&T Clark, 2019).

Abstract

"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 ... The study of children in the Bible and the biblical world speaks to a range of audiences; children are members of communities past and present, and the Bible continues to shape cultures and the lives of individuals worldwide. This volume provides a wealth of resources, taking both biblical studies and child-focused interdisciplinary research to new levels. Initial chapters provide a valuable orientation to the significance of the study of children and childhood in the biblical world and to recent advances in this rapidly growing area of research. Subsequent contributions display a range of creative methodological approaches, offering new insights into biblical and early Christian texts and the history of childhood in the ancient Near East."--Publisher description.

Contents

Introduction / Sharon Betsworth and Julie Faith Parker -- History of research on children in the Bible and the Biblical world: past developments, present state-and future potential / Reidar Aasgaard -- Accessing childhoods: interdisciplinary tools at the intersection of Biblical studies and childhood studies / Laurel W. Koepf Taylor -- Methodology: who is a child and where do we find children in the ancient Near East? / Kristine Henriksen Garroway -- The logic of sacrificing firstborn children / Heath D. Dewrell -- Children of Diaspora: the cultural politics of identity and diasporic childhood in the Book of Esther / Dong Sung Kim -- Children in Proverbs, proverbial children / Ericka S. Dunbar and Kenneth N. Ngwa -- God as a child in the Hebrew Bible? : playing with the possibilities / Julie Faith Parker -- Children and the memory of traumatic violence / Kathleen Gallagher Elkins -- A road-trip to manhood: Tobias's coming of age in Tobit 6-12 / Stephen M. Wilson -- Methodology: Who is a child and where do we find children in the Greco-Roman world? / John W. Martens -- Children playing in the marketplaces / Sharon Betsworth -- "Theirs is the Kingdom": children as proprietors of the Kingdom of God in Luke 18:15-17 / Amy Lindeman Allen -- The "lost boys" (and girls) of Q's "Neverland" / A. James Murphy -- Children, parents, and God/gods in interreligious Roman households and the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:14 / Judith M. Gundry -- Fathers and daughters in 1 Corinthians 7:36-38: the social implications of marriage in early Christian families / John W. Martens -- Absence and presence of children in the Apocryphal Acts / Anna Rebecca Solevåg -- Traveling with children: flight stories and pilgrimage routes in the Apocryphal Infancy Gospels / Tony Burke.

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