A Sign For You: A Child Savior Revealed to Child Shepherds

Drawing on parallels from Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Early Christian sources alongside of sociological models of agriculture in subsistence economies, this essay makes the case for the presence (if not preponderance) of child shepherds among those who receive the angelic message in Luke 2:1–20. By eng...

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Main Author: Lindeman Allen, Amy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 229-255
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jesus Christ, Birth / Jesus Christus / Shepherd / Child / Sign / Classical antiquity / Roman Empire / Israel (Antiquity)
IxTheo Classification:BE Greco-Roman religions
HC New Testament
KBL Near East and North Africa
TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East
Further subjects:B Shepherd
B Christmas
B Shepherds
B childist
B Luke
B Nativity
B Sign
B Children
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Summary:Drawing on parallels from Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Early Christian sources alongside of sociological models of agriculture in subsistence economies, this essay makes the case for the presence (if not preponderance) of child shepherds among those who receive the angelic message in Luke 2:1–20. By engaging a childist reading that both considers the position of the shepherds with regards to their economic and social standing in Bethlehem and re-reads the angelic message and proclamation of an infant as sign in light of such a youthful audience, this essay reframes the perceived identity of the Bethlehem shepherds to foreground the children in their midst.
ISSN:1568-5152
Contains:Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00284P05