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Give Me Children or I Shall Die : Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature /
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 resear...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014
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| Colección: | Emerging scholars.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. 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. |
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| Notas: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y., 2012. Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-144) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781451469790 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |