Children in Ancient Israel: The Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia in Comparative Perspective

by Shawn W. Flynn

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019878421X
• ISBN13: 9780198784210
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"