Research Catalog

Title

Jewish childhood in the Roman world / Hagith Sivan.

Author

Sivan, Hagith, 1949-

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xxxiv, 443 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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 is 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"--

Subjects

• Jewish children
• Jewish children > Rome > Social conditions > To 510 B.C
• Rome > History > To 510 B.C
• History
• To 510 B.C
• Jewish children > Rome > History > To 510 B.C
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface: What is the study of Jewish childhood? -- Part I: Theories -- Chapter 1. Theorizing the Jewish child -- Chapter 2. Vagaries of childhood: from cradles to graves -- Chapter 3. Bringing up boys: contemporary father-son bonding -- Chapter 4. Daughters: delight or dissension? -- Chapter 5. Burdened at birth: the misbegotten and the malformed -- Part II: Children in the synagogue -- Chapter 6. Visualizing the Bible -- Chapter 7. The painted children of the Dura Europos Synagogue -- Part III: Autobiographies -- Chapter 8. Sukkot in a cave (135 CE) -- Chapter 9. Passover in the Port of Rome (Ostia c. 175 CE ) -- Chapter 10. Sabbath in Tiberias (c. 300) -- Chapter 11. The birth of a wandering Jewess (c. 415-435 CE): the story of Rachelis Daughter of Eleazer and Ester of Alexandria (early fifth century CE) -- Conclusion: The invention of rabbinic childhood.

Call Number

JFE 18-7006

ISBN

• 9781107090170
• 1107090172

LCCN

2017054573

OCLC

1013487485

Author

Sivan, Hagith, 1949- author.

Title

Jewish childhood in the Roman world / Hagith Sivan.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 510 B.C.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7006