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  title info:
    title: Children in ancient Israel
    sub title: the Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia in comparative perspective
  name:
    name part: Flynn, Shawn W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages)
  abstract: Flynn contributes to the emerging field of childhood studies in the Hebrew Bible by isolating stages of a child's life, and through a comparative perspective, studies the place of children in the domestic cult and their relationship to the deity in that cult. The study gathers data relevant to different stages of a child's life from a plethora of Mesopotamian materials (prayers, myths, medical texts, rituals), and uses that data as an interpretive lens for Israelite texts about children at similar stages such as: pre-born children, the birth stage, breast feeding, adoption, slavery, children's death and burial rituals, childhood delinquency. This analysis presses the questions of value and violence, the importance of the domestic cult for expressing the child's value beyond economic value, and how children were valued in cultures with high infant mortality rates. From the earliest stages to the moments when children die, and to the children's responsibilities in the domestic cult later in life, this study demonstrates that a child is uniquely wrapped up in the domestic cult, and in particular, is connected with the deity. The domestic-cultic value of children forms the much broader understanding of children in the ancient world, through which other more problematic representations can be tested. Throughout the study, it becomes apparent that children's value in the domestic cult is an intentional catalyst for the social promotion of YHWHism.
  table of contents: 1. The value of ancient children -- 2. The pre-born child -- 3. Times of transition and stability -- 4. When children die -- 5. Once a child, always a child.
  note: Shawn W. Flynn.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-is---
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Old Testament
    topic: Criticism, interpretation, etc
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Old Testament
  subject:
    topic: Children in the Bible
  subject:
    topic: Children
    geographic: Israel
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Enfants dans la Bible
  subject:
    topic: Enfance
    geographic: Israël
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Biblical Studies
    topic: Old Testament
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Judaism
    topic: Sacred Writings
  subject:
    topic: Children
  subject:
    topic: Children in the Bible
  subject:
    geographic: Israel
  classification: HQ767.87 .F69 2018eb
  classification: BS576
  classification: 221.830523
  identifier: 9780191087011
  identifier: 0191087017
  identifier: 9780191826849
  identifier: 0191826847
  identifier: 9780198784210
  identifier: 019878421X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 180904
    record change date: 20260319180128.1
    record identifier: in00005716542
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng