T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and the Biblical World

Sharon Betsworth is Professor of Religion at Oklahoma City University, USA. She is the author of Children in Early Christian Narratives (T&T Clark 2015) and The Reign of God is Such as These: A Socio-literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark (T&T Clark 2010). Julie Faith Parker is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at The General Theological Seminary in New York City, USA. She is the author or editor of seven books, including Valuable and Vulnerable: Children in the Hebrew Bible, Especially the Elisha Cycle (Brown University, 2013).

Overall, this book provides an excellent starting point for students and researchers new to the field of children in the Bible and the biblical world… This handbook is an especially helpful guide in providing useful methodologies, a history of the research field, and new research prospects.

• List of Tables and IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations1. Introduction - Sharon Betsworth, Oklahoma City University, USA and Julie Faith Parker, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, USAPart One Orientation to the Field 2. History of Research on Children in the Bible and the Biblical World: Past Developments, Present State—and Future Potential - Reidar Aasgaard 3. Accessing Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Tools at the Intersection of Biblical Studies and Childhood Studies - Laurel W. Koepf Taylor Part Two Hebrew Bible4. Methodology: Who Is a Child and Where Do We Find Children in the Ancient Near East? - Kristine Henriksen Garroway5. The Logic of Sacrificing Firstborn Children - Heath D. Dewrell6. Children of Diaspora: The Cultural Politics of Identity and Diasporic Childhood in the Book of Esther - Dong Sung Kim 7. Children in Proverbs, Proverbial Children - Ericka S. Dunbar and Kenneth N. Ngwa 8. God as a Child in the Hebrew Bible? Playing with the Possibilities - Julie Faith Parker 155Part Three Intertextual Issues and Intertestamental Texts9. Children and the Memory of Traumatic Violence - Kathleen Gallagher Elkins 10. A Road-Trip to Manhood: Tobias’s Coming of Age in Tobit 6–12 - Stephen M. Wilson Part Four New Testament11. Methodology: Who Is a Child and Where Do We Find Children in the Greco-Roman World? - John W. Martens 12. Children Playing in the Marketplaces - Sharon Betsworth 13. “Theirs is the Kingdom”: Children as Proprietors of the Kingdom of God in Luke 18:15–17 - Amy Lindeman Allen 14. The “Lost Boys” (and Girls) of Q’s “Neverland” - A. James Murphy 15. Children, Parents, and God/Gods in Interreligious Roman Households and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:14 - Judith M. Gundry 16. Fathers and Daughters in 1 Corinthians 7:36–38: The Social Implications of Marriage in EarlyChristian Families - John W. Martens Part Five Early Christian Apocrypha17. Absence and Presence of Children in the Apocryphal Acts - Anna Rebecca Solevåg 18. Traveling with Children: Flight Stories and Pilgrimage Routes in the Apocryphal Infancy Gospels -Tony Burke Bibliography Scripture Index Ancient Source Index Subject Index