TT Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and the Biblical World [Hardcover]

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.

Sharon Betsworthis Professor of Religion at Oklahoma City University, USA. She is the author ofChildren in Early Christian Narratives(T&T Clark 2015) andThe Reign of God is Such as These: A Socio-literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark(T&T Clark 2010).

Julie Faith Parkeris Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at The General Theological Seminary in New York City, USA. She is the author or editor of seven books, includingValuable and Vulnerable: Children in the Hebrew Bible, Especially the Elisha Cycle(Brown University, 2013).

Overall, this book provides an excellent starting point for students and researchers new to the field of children in the Bible and the biblical world& This handbook is an especially helpful guide in providing useful methodologies, a history of the research field, and new research prospects. Review of Biblical Literature

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