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- Give Me Children or I Shall Die: Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
- Series: Emerging Scholars
summary
In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival. In such an economy, childrens labor contributes to the familys livelihood from a young age, rather than simply preparing the child for future adult work. Ethnographic research shows that this interdependent family life contrasts significantly with that of privileged modern Westerners, for whom children are dependents. This text seeks to look beyond the dominant cultural constructions of childhood in the modern West and the moral rhetoric that accompanies them so as to uncover what biblical texts intend to communicate when they utilize children as literary tropes in their own social, cultural, and historical context.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Interpreting (In)fertility
- pp. 33-64
- The Child and the Community at Risk
- pp. 93-124
- Conclusion
- pp. 125-130
- Bibliography
- pp. 131-144
- Index of Subjects
- pp. 145-150
- Index of Names
- pp. 151-154
Additional Information
ISBN
9781451469790
Related ISBN(s)
9781451465631
MARC Record
OCLC
863824695
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2014-03-13
Language
English
Open Access
No