Honouring age the social dynamics of age structure in 1 Timothy - LaFosse, Mona Tokarek (Montreal Kingston London Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Table and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Ancient Sources -- Honouring Age -- 1 Why Study Age in 1 Timothy? -- 2 Mediterranean Dynamics of Age Structure and 1 Timothy -- 3 One Letter, Two Stories: Rhetoric and Crisis -- 4 Ideal Behaviour in the “Household of God” (1 Tim. 5:1–2) -- 5 Categorizing Widows: Definitions and Responsibilities -- 6 Why Sixty? -- 7 Younger Widows and Age Hierarchy among Women -- 8 A Believing Woman -- 9 Elders -- 10 Intergenerational Conflict in 1 Timothy: The Big Picture -- 11 The Visibility of Age -- Notes -- References -- Index
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Keywords: RELIGION / Biblical Studies / History & Culture; Religion / Christianity / History; Ancient; Bishops; Care; Christianity; Elders; Ethnography; Faith; Family; Filial Piety; Gender; Hierarchy; Inheritance; intergenerational relationships; Modesty; Pastoral Epistles; Paterfamilias; Pseudepigraphy