Growing Up in Ancient Israel
Growing Up in Ancient Israel

Author: Kristine Henriksen Garroway

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2018-11-16

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0884142965

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The first expansive reference examining the texts and material culture related to children in ancient Israel Growing Up in Ancient Israel uses a child-centered methodology to investigate the world of children in ancient Israel. Where sources from ancient Israel are lacking, the book turns to cross-cultural materials from the ancient Near East as well as archaeological, anthropological, and ethnographic sources. Acknowledging that childhood is both biologically determined and culturally constructed, the book explores conception, birth, infancy, dangers in childhood, the growing child, dress, play, and death. To bridge the gap between the ancient world and today’s world, Kristine Henriksen Garroway introduces examples from contemporary society to illustrate how the Hebrew Bible compares with a Western understanding of children and childhood. Features: More than fifty-five illustrations illuminating the world of the ancient Israelite child An extensive investigation of parental reactions to the high rate of infant mortality and the deaths of infants and children An examination of what the gendering and enculturation process involved for an Israelite child

Growing Up
Growing Up

Author: Thomas B Robb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1136580557

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Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years is a sensitive volume devoted to helping older adults retain their status as meaningful members of their congregations and communities. In an honest approach, based on the foundations that old age is supposed to happen, the future belongs to the old, and vocation for people of faith is lifelong, Thomas Robb provides personal and Biblical perspectives, as well as research from over 20 years as a pastor, on the life process and the feelings, worries, and expectations accompanying growing up and growing old. He then molds these concerns into a challenge for congregations and their spiritual leaders to actively assist the aged in coping with and overcoming fears and barriers limiting the fullest expression of faith in God. This insightful book describes the tasks and suggests programs for pastors and congregations everywhere in meeting the challenge, making life for the aged more than shuffleboard and bingo, pot-luck dinners and day trips. Dimensions of pastoral ministries that nurture women and men who, at midlife and beyond, seek to find their way through the unexpected and unplanned, through the third of life following parenthood and careers, are described in detail. Pastors, church leaders, congregations, professors of courses in ministry and aging, aging church members, and seminary students will benefit immensely from the wealth of information presented in Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years.

Jewish Childhood in the Roman World
Jewish Childhood in the Roman World

Author: Hagith Sivan

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-17

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1107090172

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

The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel

Author: Andrew Tobolowsky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1009089137

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The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from biblical times to the present. By treating the Hebrew Bible's accounts of Israel as one of many efforts to construct an Israelite history, rather than source material for later legends, Andrew Tobolowsky brings a long-term comparative approach to biblical and nonbiblical “Israelite” histories. In the process, he sheds new light on how the structure of the twelve tribes tradition enables the creation of so many different visions of Israel, and generates new questions: How can we explain the enduring power of the myth of the twelve tribes of Israel? How does “becoming Israel” work, why has it proven so popular, and how did it change over time? Finally, what can the changing shape of Israel itself reveal about those who claimed it?

The History of Ancient Israel
The History of Ancient Israel

Author: Michael Grant

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1780222777

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The definitve guide to the history of ancient Israel. The History of Ancient Israel covers the epic story of Jewish civilisation from its beginnings to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Temple in AD 70. It deals with Israel's relations with the great empires which shaped its development and with the changing internal structure of the Jewish state, drawing both on excavation and the Hebrew Bible.

How the Bible Became a Book
How the Bible Became a Book

Author: William M. Schniedewind

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-05-10

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0521829461

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For the past two hundred years biblical scholars have increasingly assumed that the Hebrew Bible was largely written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. As a result, the written Bible has dwelled in an historical vacuum. Recent archaeological evidence and insights from linguistic anthropology, however, point to the earlier era of the late-Iron Age as the formative period for the writing of biblical literature. How the Bible Became a Book combines these recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to address how the Bible first came to be written down and then became sacred Scripture. This book provides rich insight into why these texts came to have authority as Scripture and explores why Ancient Israel, an oral culture, began to write literature, challenging the assertion that widespread literacy first arose in Greece during the fifth century BCE.

Growing Up Jewish in India
Growing Up Jewish in India

Author: Ori Z. Soltes

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-29

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9789389136814

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* A comprehensive historical account of the primary Jewish communities of India, their synagogues, and unique Indian Jewish custom* The essays and over 150 images in the book explore how Indian Jews retained their unique characteristics, as well as became integrated into the larger society of India* Includes the memoir of growing up Jewish in India by Siona Benjamin, and an analysis of her trans-cultural artGrowing Up Jewish in India offers an historical account of the primary Jewish communities of India, their synagogues, and unique Indian Jewish customs. It offers an investigation both within Jewish India and beyond its borders, tracing how Jews arrived in the vast subcontinent at different times from different places and have both inhabited dispersed locations within the larger Indian world, and ultimately created their own diaspora within the larger Jewish diaspora by relocating to other countries, particularly Israel and the United States. The text and its rich complement of over 150 images explore how Indian Jews retained their unique characteristics as Jews, became well-integrated into the larger society of India as Indians, and have continued to offer a synthesis of cultural qualities wherever they reside. Among the outcomes of these developments is the unique art of Siona Benjamin, who grew up in the Bene Israel community of Mumbai and then moved to the US, and whose art reflects Indian and Jewish influences as well as concepts like Tikkun olam (Hebrew for 'repairing the world'). In combining discussions of the Indian Jewish communities with Benjamin's own story and an analysis of her artistic output - and in introducing these narratives within the larger story of Jews across eastern Asia - this volume offers a unique verbal and visual portrait of a significant slice of Indian and Jewish culture and tradition. It would be of interest to Jews and non-Jews, Indian and non-Indian alike, as well as to history enthusiasts and the general reader interested in art and culture.

Why Jephthah's Daughter Weeps
Why Jephthah's Daughter Weeps

Author: Margaret Murray Talbot

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-02-28

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9004508171

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Why does Jephthah’s daughter weep? This new child-oriented reading reveals that a complex mix of emotional, familial, socio-cultural, and sexual consequences of menarche and menstruation lies behind her tears. There’s more blood flowing in this Judges story than you’ve likely imagined!

The Cambridge Companion to Genesis
The Cambridge Companion to Genesis

Author: Bill T. Arnold

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1108423752

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Essays explaining diverse methods and reading strategies, providing a dependable guide to understanding the Book of Genesis.

Growing Up in Israel
Growing Up in Israel

Author: Desider Holisher

Publisher: Viking Children's Books

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13:

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Through the experiences of Israela and Simon, brothr and sister, living in present-day Israel, the reader learns about the customs, sports, education, worship and other aspects of Israeli life. Although some historical background is given, emphaisis is on the modern state. Photographs illustrate the text.