Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household

• Autore: Garroway Kristine Henriksen
• Pubblicazione: Winona Lake, Indiana : , : Eisenbrauns, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.2309394
• Soggetto topico: Social archaeology; Households; Household archaeology; Children - Social conditions; Children; Household archaeology - Middle East; Social archaeology - Middle East; Households - Middle East - History - To 1500; Children - Middle East - Social conditions; Children - Middle East - History - To 1500
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Foundations: Theory and Childhood""; ""Adoption""; ""Orphans""; ""Children as Debt-Slaves""; ""The Slave and Hired Child""; ""Children in Biblical Israel""; ""Child Sacrifice""; ""Child Burials: An Overview""; ""Child Burials in Canaan""; ""Conclusions""; ""Cuneiform Texts""; ""Archaeological Data for Burials in Canaan""; ""Catalog of Sites""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Authors""; ""Index of Scripture""
• Sommario/riassunto: Children were an important part of the ancient Near Eastern household. This idea seems straightforward, but it can be understood in many ways. On a basic level, children are necessary for the perpetuation of a household. On a deeper level, the definitions of child and member of the household are far from categorical. This book begins to explore the multiple definitions of child and the way the child fits within a household. It examines what membership in the household looks like for children and what factors contribute to it. A study addressing what a child is and how a child’s gender and social status affect her place in the household is vital to a proper understanding of the ancient Near Eastern household.Despite their importance, children have long been marginalized in discussions of ancient societies. Only recently has this trend begun to change within biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholarship. A recent wave of studies, especially in relation to the Hebrew Bible, has started to address children in their own right. In light of the current state of scholarship on children, the purpose of this book is threefold. First, Garroway continues to fill out the picture of the child in the ancient Near East by compiling child-centric texts and archaeological realia. In analyzing these materials, she surveys the relationship between children and ancient Near Eastern society by examining the extent to which structuring forces in a community, such as social status and gender, contribute to the process of a child’s becoming a member of his household and society. Finally, this information provides a base for future research, for example, a cross-cultural study of children in the ancient Near East in Classical Antiquity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household
• ISBN: 1-57506-895-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820904703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Explorations in ancient Near Eastern civilizations.