Hagith Sivan

Jewish Childhood in the Roman World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. Explores the lives of minors both inside and outside the home.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781107090170
• ISBN-10: 1107090172
• Artikelnr.: 50556261

Autorenporträt

Hagith Sivan is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Kansas. She has published six books and many articles on subjects ranging from the Ten Commandments to Palestine in Late Antiquity and from Romans and barbarians to the last Roman empress.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theories: 1. Theorizing the Jewish child
2. Vagaries of childhood: from cradles to graves
3. Bringing up boys
4. Daughters: delight or dissension?
5. Burdened at birth: the misbegotten and the malformed
Part II. Children in the Synagogue: 6. Visualizing the bible
7. The painted children of the Dura Europos Synagogue
Part III. Autobiographies: 8. Sukkot in a cave (CE 135)
9. Passover in the port of Rome (Ostia c. CE 175)
10. Sabbath in Tiberias (c. 300)
11. The birth of a wandering Jewess (c. CE 415-435)
Conclusion: the invention of Rabbinic childhood.