Passaro, Angelo. creator text Electronic books. gw Berlin De Gruyter 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource (600 pages) This volume discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature. After analyzing the topic family in a narrow sense of the term, the articles investigate general ideas of morality, respect, or love and take a critical look at representations of gender, power, and social norms in Judaism and Early Christianity. Preface; Abbreviations; From Tobit to Ben Sira: from nostalgia to the recovery of fatherhood; The Emotional Relationship of the Married Couple Hannah and Tobit; Tobit and Tobias: A Model for an Ideal Father-Son Relationship; "I Am My Father's Only Daughter." Sarah's Unbalanced Relationship with Her Parents in the Book of Tobit; The relationship between husband and wife according to Sirach 25-26, 36; Polygamy in Ben Sira?; Respect and Care for Parents in Sirach 3:1-16; "The wisdom teaches their sons" (Sir 4:11). And the daughters? -- Sons of Ben Sirach. Daughters and Their Father(s) in the Book of Ben SiraOccasions when Wisdom replaces the Mother as Educator in Sirach and the Related Literature; The Fate of the Impious and of their Families; "I loved [Wisdom] and sought her from my youth; I desired to take her for my Counsellor" (Wis 8:2a). Solomon and Wisdom: An example of the Closest Intimacy; Esther's Family: Ethnicity, Politics and Religion; The Praise of the Widow? Changes in the Judith Narrative; The Family Measure in 2 Maccabees: A Mother and Her Seven Sons (2 Macc 7:1-42). Religious identity and its development. What may Children learn from their Elders?Parents Rejoice Over Their Children: Examples in the Psalms; Jerusalem as Mother in Bar 4:5-5:9; Family Relationships in 4QInstruction; Illicit Unions, Hybrid Sonship, and Intermarriage in Second Temple Judaism. 1 Enoch, Book of Giants, Jubilees; Marriage and Family in Flavius Josephus's Contra Apionem (II, 199-206) against its Hellenistic background; Contingencies and Innovations in the Household Codes of the Pauline Traditions (Col 3:18-4:1; Eph 5:21-6:9). Born or re-born? Identity and family bonds in 1 Peter and 4 MaccabeesThe Fathership of God in Early Rabbinic Liturgy; The Role of the Family in Traditional Judaism; The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah in the Venerable Bede's Commentary on Tobit; Authors; Index of Modern Authors; Index of References; Index of Subjects. Criticism, interpretation, etc Families Biblical teaching Kinship Biblical teaching RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament BS1199.F32 D48 2014 222.06 Passaro, Angelo. Berlin : De Gruyter, ©2013 9783110310436 (electronic bk.) 3110310430 (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1130341 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=710715 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1130341 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=710715 EBLCP 140222 20200709060103.0 ocn870946419 eng