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Jewish Childhood in the Roman World

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  • Date Published: June 2018
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781107090170

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  • This is the first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. It follows minors into the spaces where they lived, learned, played, slept, and died and examines the actions and interaction of children with other children, with close-kin adults, and with strangers, both inside and outside the home. A wide range of sources are used, from the rabbinic rules to the surviving painted representations of children from synagogues, and due attention is paid to broader theoretical issues and approaches. Hagith Sivan concludes with four beautifully reconstructed 'autobiographies' of specific children, from a boy living and dying in a desert cave during the Bar-Kokhba revolt to an Alexandrian girl forced to leave her home and wander through the Mediterranean in search of a respite from persecution. The book tackles the major questions of the relationship between Jewish childhood and Jewish identity which remain important to this day.

    • The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world, of interest to historians, sociologists, childhood experts, disabilities experts, and to scholars of antiquity, the Middle Ages and modernity interested in comparative data
    • Explores the complex relationship between Jewish childhood and Jewish identity
    • Brings its often overlooked subjects to life, especially through four reconstructed 'autobiographies' of specific children
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    • Date Published: June 2018
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781107090170
    • length: 478 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 156 x 25 mm
    • weight: 0.89kg
    • contains: 24 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    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.

  • Author

    Hagith Sivan, University of Kansas
    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.

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