T&T Clark handbook of children in the Bible and the biblical world / edited by Sharon Betsworth and Julie Faith Parker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Betsworth, Sharon, editor.

Parker, Julie F., editor.

Series:

T&T Clark handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Children in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019.

Summary:

"This groundbreaking volume contains carefully commissioned chapters that examine the presentation and role of children in the ancient world and specifically in ancient Jewish and Christian texts. The volume is structured in four parts. The first offers overviews of the key methodological approaches employed in the study of children in the biblical world, and the texts at hand. Following on from this three further sections examine key texts in which children or discussions of childhood are featured. These are presented along chronological lines, with sections on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, on the Intertestamental Literature, and on the New Testament and Early Christian Apocrypha. This chronological and canonical progression enables readers who read the entire volume sequentially to appreciate how understandings of children change over time. The book also provides a valuable resource for those reading selectively and focusing on a specific period or set of texts. It is relevant to scholars and students interested in the biblical world, as well as cross-disciplinary scholars interested in children in antiquity."-Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Section I - Introduction and Methodology

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

2. History of Research of Children in the Biblical World - Reidar Aasgaard, University of Oslo, Norway

3. Methodology: Who is a Child and Where Do We Find Children? - Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA

4. Accessing Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Tools at the Intersection of Biblical Studies and Childhood Studies. - Laurel Koepf Taylor, Eden Theological Seminary, USA

Section II - Hebrew Bible

5. Children and Sacrifice - Heath Dewrell, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

6. Strategies for Discovering the Bible's Girls Applied to Exodus 2 - Julie Faith Parker, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, USA

7. Coming of Age, Ageism, and Identity Politics in the Book of Esther - Dong Sung Kim, Drew Theological Seminary, USA

8. Children and Proverbs - Kenneth Ngwa, Drew Theological Seminary, USA

Section III - Intertextual and Intertestamental

9. Luke's Use of Hannah and Samuel Narratives - Danna Nolan Fewell, Drew Theological Seminary, USA

10. Children and Memory, Trauma and Violence - Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, Saint Norbert College, USA

11. Intertestamental Literature - Tsui Yuk Louise Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

12. Children in Maccabees and Tobit - Stephen Wilson, Georgetown University, USA

Section IV - New Testament and Early Christian Apocrypha

13. Children Playing in the Marketplaces - Sharon Betsworth, Oklahoma City University, USA

14. 'Theirs is the Kingdom': Children at the Center of God's Family in Luke - Amy Allen, Vanderbilt University, USA

15. Children in the Q Material - A. James Murphy, South Dakota State University, USA

16. Children in the Pauline Material - John W. Martens, University of Saint Thomas, St Paul MN, USA

17. Children and Disability in the New Testament/Early Christianity - Anna Rebecca Solevåg, School of Mission and Theology, Norway.

Indexes.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-567-67259-X

0-567-67256-5

0-567-67258-1

OCLC:

1097184099