Jephthah's daughter, Sarah's son : the death of children in late antiquity /
Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of economic crisis, war and disease. They had a one in three chance of dying before their first birthday, with as many as half dying before age ten. Christian writers accordingly sought to speak to the experience of be...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Christianity in late antiquity (North American Patristics Society) ;
8. |
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Table of Contents:
- (Premature) Death as a good : an introduction
- Children's deaths in late antiquity in ritual and historical perspective
- East of Eden : the first bereaved parents
- Mourning Sarah's son : Genesis 22 and the death of children
- Echoes of the Akedah : Jephthah's daughter and the Maccabeans' mother
- Death, demons, and disaster : Job's children
- Children and the sword : the holy innocents and the death of children
- Conclusion : children in the quicksand.