[PDF] Growing Up In Ancient Israel eBook

Author : Kristine Henriksen Garroway
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0884142965

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The first expansive reference examining the texts and material culture related to children in ancient Israel Growing Up in Ancient Israel uses a child-centered methodology to investigate the world of children in ancient Israel. Where sources from ancient Israel are lacking, the book turns to cross-cultural materials from the ancient Near East as well as archaeological, anthropological, and ethnographic sources. Acknowledging that childhood is both biologically determined and culturally constructed, the book explores conception, birth, infancy, dangers in childhood, the growing child, dress, play, and death. To bridge the gap between the ancient world and today’s world, Kristine Henriksen Garroway introduces examples from contemporary society to illustrate how the Hebrew Bible compares with a Western understanding of children and childhood. Features: More than fifty-five illustrations illuminating the world of the ancient Israelite child An extensive investigation of parental reactions to the high rate of infant mortality and the deaths of infants and children An examination of what the gendering and enculturation process involved for an Israelite child

Author : Ilana Pardes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2000-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520929721

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The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, the many anthropomorphisms by which a collective character named "Israel" springs to life. She explores the representation of communal motives, hidden desires, collective anxieties, the drama and suspense embedded in each phase of the nation's life: from birth in exile, to suckling in the wilderness, to a long process of maturation that has no definite end. In the Bible, Pardes suggests, history and literature go hand in hand more explicitly than in modern historiography, which is why the Bible serves as a paradigmatic case for examining the narrative base of national constructions. Pardes calls for a consideration of the Bible's penetrating renditions of national ambivalence. She reads the rebellious conduct of the nation against the grain, probing the murmurings of the people, foregrounding their critique of the official line. The Bible does not provide a homogeneous account of nation formation, according to Pardes, but rather reveals points of tension between different perceptions of the nation's history and destiny. This fresh and beautifully rendered portrayal of the history of ancient Israel will be of vital interest to anyone interested in the Bible, in the interrelations of literature and history, in nationhood, in feminist thought, and in psychoanalysis.

Author : Desider Holisher
Publisher : Viking Children's Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Children
ISBN :

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Through the experiences of Israela and Simon, brothr and sister, living in present-day Israel, the reader learns about the customs, sports, education, worship and other aspects of Israeli life. Although some historical background is given, emphaisis is on the modern state. Photographs illustrate the text.

Author : Margaret Murray Talbot
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004508171

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Why does Jephthah’s daughter weep? This new child-oriented reading reveals that a complex mix of emotional, familial, socio-cultural, and sexual consequences of menarche and menstruation lies behind her tears. There’s more blood flowing in this Judges story than you’ve likely imagined!

Author : Thomas B Robb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1136580557

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Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years is a sensitive volume devoted to helping older adults retain their status as meaningful members of their congregations and communities. In an honest approach, based on the foundations that old age is supposed to happen, the future belongs to the old, and vocation for people of faith is lifelong, Thomas Robb provides personal and Biblical perspectives, as well as research from over 20 years as a pastor, on the life process and the feelings, worries, and expectations accompanying growing up and growing old. He then molds these concerns into a challenge for congregations and their spiritual leaders to actively assist the aged in coping with and overcoming fears and barriers limiting the fullest expression of faith in God. This insightful book describes the tasks and suggests programs for pastors and congregations everywhere in meeting the challenge, making life for the aged more than shuffleboard and bingo, pot-luck dinners and day trips. Dimensions of pastoral ministries that nurture women and men who, at midlife and beyond, seek to find their way through the unexpected and unplanned, through the third of life following parenthood and careers, are described in detail. Pastors, church leaders, congregations, professors of courses in ministry and aging, aging church members, and seminary students will benefit immensely from the wealth of information presented in Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years.

Author : Bold Kids
Publisher : FASTLANE LLC
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1641933119

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Ancient Israel is a big part of the general state of Christianity and how it came about. There is a lot to learn, and in this, your child will learn some cool and intriguing facts about ancient Israel and why it matters. Pick up a copy today to learn more!

Author : Shawn W. Flynn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191087025

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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.

Author : William M. Schniedewind
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2004-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521829461

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For the past two hundred years biblical scholars have increasingly assumed that the Hebrew Bible was largely written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. As a result, the written Bible has dwelled in an historical vacuum. Recent archaeological evidence and insights from linguistic anthropology, however, point to the earlier era of the late-Iron Age as the formative period for the writing of biblical literature. How the Bible Became a Book combines these recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to address how the Bible first came to be written down and then became sacred Scripture. This book provides rich insight into why these texts came to have authority as Scripture and explores why Ancient Israel, an oral culture, began to write literature, challenging the assertion that widespread literacy first arose in Greece during the fifth century BCE.

Author : Hagith Sivan
Publisher :
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107090172

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The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. Explores the lives of minors both inside and outside the home.