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Index of Subjects abandonment of children, 5 Abraham, 48, 51, 54, 80, 83, 107n26 abuse, 13, 117–18 acrostics, 84 adolescence, 25 adoption and fostering, 17, 18, 34–35, 117, 119; gender of children in, 18 adult, definition of, 24 age spectrum, 100 agrarian economy, 15, 18, 27, 31, 34, 37, 66, 72, 99, 127 agricultural produce, 29, 30 Ahaz, 30n98 al-Yahudu texts, 71–72 American Academy of Religion, 6 Amish education, 72 Amon, 82 apostasy, 112 apprenticeship model of development, 12 archaeology, 23–27, 127, 129 architectural imagery, 61 Asaph psalms, 84 Asher, 50 Augustine of Hippo, 25 Ba’al, 119 barrenness. See infertility Bat Tsion, 60, 61–62, 103–4, 105 Bible: children reading, 3, 128–29; children’s value in, 29–31 biblical interpretation, child-centered, 1, 3–6, 21–23, 126, 127–29 Bilhah, 47, 48, 50 birth imagery, 58–59 blame, generational, 81–82 blessing of fertility, 47, 48, 49, 50 cannibalism, 40, 104, 105 “catechism,” 79 childbearing as theological activity, 50 child characters, 3, 4, 21 childhood, 1; biblical metaphors of, 21; deconstructing, 7–8; definition of, 7–8, 23–27; as social construct, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10–23, 125, 127; social history of, 12–21 childhood, idealization of, 13 childhood studies, 2, 7–9; models of, 8–9 child labor, 15–17, 18–20, 51, 66; and competition with adults, 15–16; laws concerning, 22. See also work childlessness: communal fear of, 106; economic hardship of, 43. See also infertility child rearing practices, 13 children: agency of, 2, 7–8, 26, 127; command to instruct, 73–74, 75–79; cost of raising, 35–36; cruelty to, 105; definition of, 7–8, 24; as economically valuable, 15, 17–18, 27, 29–31, 33, 38, 41, 43, 51, 55, 59, 62, 105, 126; gender of, 37, 66n4; illegitimate, 115, 117; legal status of, 4, 7–8, 17, 41; and military might, 62; as necessary for survival, 55, 57–59, 66, 82–83, 90–91, 105–6, 113, 125, 126; as priceless, 15, 16, 17–18, 19–20, 23, 34, 98, 99, 127; sentimental value of, 17–18; social status of, 22, 58; subjectivities of, 7, 10; symbolism of, 58–59; working with, 128; wrongful-death claims for, 17–18 child sacrifice, 29–30 145 chores, 16, 18–19 circumcision, 50, 51–55; fertility and, 50, 51–52, 53–54; fruit tree association of, 50, 52 marriage and, 53; religious nature of, 52, 53 class, social, 15, 17–18, 21 clearinghouse model of childhood studies, 8–9 coffeehouse model of childhood studies, 9 colonialism, 11–12 command to instruct children, 73–74, 75–79, 82–83 community survival: instruction and, 67, 82–83; necessity of children for, 55, 57–59, 105, 126 covenant and fertility, 51–52, 55, 63. See also circumcision cultural memory, 68, 70–71, 73, 88, 90 cultural reproduction, 67–68, 87, 90, 93, 101 cultural survival, 70, 72, 78, 87, 97, 113. See also exile curriculum, 68 curses, 101–2 death of children, 32, 42, 97; of enemy, 101–2; in rhetoric, 56, 93, 98–106 derision, 43–44 Deutero-Isaiah, 59–62 Deuteronomic tradition, 75–76, 77–78, 79, 81, 85, 86, 87, 108, 111 development, biological, 24 developmental psychology, 10, 11–12, 19, 22 diaspora, 32, 71, 72, 74, 99, 126, 127 Dinah, 48n32 discipline, 69 divine marriage and family metaphor, 60, 106–22 divorce, 107–8, 110–11, 117, 118, 119 education, 31–32, 65–91, 126; career and, 65–66; childhood as time for, 15; of community, 81 compulsory, 15; “defensive programs” of, 72; modern, 68–70; scribal, 66, 67–68 Elisha cycle, 4 emasculation, 41–42, 102–3; as threat to community survival, 42 emotional association of children, 13, 30, 34–35, 94, 125 enculturation, 31, 67–68, 72–73, 90, 126 enlarging the tent rhetoric, 60–61, 62 Ephraim, 85, 118, 119 ethics, 5 ethnography, 23 exile, 70–73, 74, 78–80, 90–91; cause of, 81–82; and exilic redaction, 78, 79; return from, 58–62, 123; value of children in, 82–83 Exodus narrative, 62, 74–77 exorcism, 14 extinction, threat of, 93, 98–106 Ezekiel, 121–22 faithlessness, 112, 113 familial rejection rhetoric, 60, 106–21 father-daughter relationship, 110 father-son relationship, 89, 106, 107, 110, 113, 115, 119, 122, 123 feminist criticism, 37, 46n29, 118 fertility: circumcision and, 50–52, 53–54; of flocks, 49; as form of wealth, 47, 49, 50, 59, 62; fruit trees and, 50; imagery...

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