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Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son - The Death of Children in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son - The Death of Children in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Christianity in Late Antiquity, 8
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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 bereavement and to provide cultural
scripts for parents who had lost a child. These late ancient
writers turned to characters like Eve and Sarah, Job and Jephthah
as models for grieving and for confronting or submitting to the
divine. Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son traces the stories these
writers crafted and the ways in which they shaped the lived
experience of familial bereavement in ancient Christianity. A
compelling social history that conveys the emotional lives of
people in the late ancient world, Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son
is a powerful portrait of mourning that extends beyond antiquity to
the present day.
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