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Children in Ancient Israel - The Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
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Children in Ancient Israel - The Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
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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.
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