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Yearbook 2012/2013 : family and kinship in the Deuterocanonical and cognate literature / edited by Angelo Passaro.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Deuterocanonical and cognate literature yearbook ; 2012/2013.Publisher: Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (599 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110310436
  • 3110310430
  • 3110310368
  • 9783110310368
  • 130646269X
  • 9781306462693
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Yearbook 2012/2013 : family and kinship in the Deuterocanonical and cognate literature.DDC classification:
  • 229/.06 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1199.F32 D48 2013eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)710715

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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.