The Dying Child

The Death and Personhood of Children in Ancient Israel

Kristine Henriksen Garroway (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-756668-8 (ISBN)

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The death of a child is perhaps the most painful, heartbreaking, and seemingly-unnatural experience we have the displeasure of living with. Yet it is difficult to say with certainty whether or not this sentiment was shared by the inhabitants of ancient Israel. Many studies have explored death in ancient societies by examining types of burial, burial rites, biblical notions of death and the afterlife, care for the dead, even cults of the dead -- yet no single study has been devoted to children and death in ancient Israel.
The study of childhood death is tightly entwined with the concerns of a field that is relatively new to the scholarship of ancient Israel: personhood. An exploration of the concept of personhood is needed in the context of childhood death. In The Dying Child, Kristine Henriksen Garroway argues for a stronger position of the child in current archeological trends. Many archaeologists hesitate to ascribe various domestic objects to children, despite their obvious presence in the ancient home. This functionally ignores an entire class of people in the study of death. In acknowledging the personhood of children in burials and other deathly-rituals, Garroway considers emotional and personal aspects of ancient Israeli life -- filling a critical gap in our understanding of this culture.

Kristine Henriksen Garroway is Professor of Bible at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Skirball Campus (Los Angeles). She is the author of Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household and Growing Up in Ancient Israel.

Introduction

Part I: The Burials of Children in Ancient Israel
1. Archaeological Overview of Child Burials in the Bronze-Iron Ages
2. Surveying Iron Age Infant and Child Burials on the Philistine Coast
3. Surveying Iron Age Infant and Child Burials in Phoenician Influenced Areas
4. Surveying Infant and Child Burials in Iron I Israel and Iron II Judah and Israel

Part II: Interpreting the Burials of Children in Ancient Israel
5. Memorializing Death
6. The Dying Child: Children and Infants in Judahite Family Tombs
7. The Death of Children in the Hebrew Bible: Child Sacrifice, Personhood, and Judahite Ideals
8. The Personhood of Children Revealed in Death

Erscheinungsdatum	12.02.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 238 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	0-19-756668-5 / 0197566685
ISBN-13	978-0-19-756668-8 / 9780197566688
Zustand	Neuware