Table of Contents
List of Tables and Illustrations x
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xiv
List of Abbreviations xv
1 Introduction Sharon Betsworth Julie Faith Parker 1
Part 1 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 13
3 Accessing Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Tools at the Intersection of Biblical Studies and Childhood Studies Laurel W. Koepf Taylor 39
Part 2 Hebrew Bible
4 Methodology: Who Is a Child and Where Do We Find Children in the Ancient Near East? Kristine Henriksen Garroway 67
5 The Logic of Sacrificing Firstborn Children Heath D. Dewrell 91
6 Children of Diaspora: The Cultural Politics of Identity and Diasporic Childhood in the Book of Esther Dong Sung Kim 109
7 Children in Proverbs, Proverbial Children Ericka S. Dunbar Kenneth N. Ngwa 131
8 God as a Child in the Hebrew Bible? Playing with the Possibilities Julie Faith Parker 155
Part 3 Intertextual Issues and Intertestamental Texts
9 Children and the Memory of Traumatic Violence Kathleen Gallagher Elkins 181
10 A Road-Trip to Manhood: Tobias's Coming of Age in Tobit 6-12 Stephen M. Wilson 199
Part 4 New Testament
11 Methodology: Who Is a Child and Where Do We Find Children in the Greco-Roman World? John W. Martens 223
12 Children Playing in the Marketplaces Sharon Betsworth 245
13 "Theirs is the Kingdom": Children as Proprietors of the Kingdom of God in Luke 18:15-17 Amy Lindeman Allen 265
14 The "Lost Boys" (and Girls) of Q's "Neverland" A. James Murphy 291
15 Children, Parents, and God/Gods in Interreligious Roman Households and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:14 Judith M. Gundry 311
16 Fathers and Daughters in 1 Corinthians 7:36-38: The Social Implications of Marriage in Early Christian Families John W. Martens 335
Part 5 Early Christian Apocrypha
17 Absence and Presence of Children in the Apocryphal Acts Anna Rebecca Solevåg 359
18 Traveling with Children: Flight Stories and Pilgrimage Routes in the Apocryphal Infancy Gospels Tony Burke 379
Bibliography 399
Scripture Index 445
Ancient Source Index 459
Subject Index 465