RT Book
T1 Give me children or I shall die: children and communal survival in biblical literature
T2 Emerging scholars
A1 Taylor, Laurel Koepf
LA English
PP Minneapolis
PB Fortress Press
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/777429403
AB "In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival. In such an economy, children's labor contributes to the family's 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. In this volume, Laurel Koepf-Taylor looks beyond the dominant cultural constructions of childhood in the modern West and the moral rhetoric that accompanies them. In doing so, Koept-Taylor seeks to uncover what biblical texts intend to communicate when they utilize children as literary tropes in their own social, cultural, and historical context."--Page 4 of cover
OP 153
NO Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y., 2012
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-144) and indexes
CN BS576
SN 978-1-4514-6563-1
SN 1-4514-6563-7
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Children : Middle East : History : To 1500
K1 Children in the Bible
K1 Children : Cross-cultural studies
K1 Hochschulschrift