Children’s Lives and Agency in the Agonistic First Century and New Testament Studies
hile theoretical approaches attempt to map ancient childhood, the material and incidental nature of children’s lives in all their varieties and differences, are crucial for understanding ancient childhood. Recent investigations into children in their living environments have shown attention to thei...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Johannesburg
2024-03-01
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| Series: | The Thinker |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/3054 |
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| Summary: | hile theoretical approaches attempt to map ancient childhood, the material and incidental nature of children’s lives in all their varieties and differences, are crucial for understanding ancient childhood. Recent investigations into children in their living environments have shown attention to their clothing, childhood care, social relations, leisure and play, health and disability, upbringing and schooling, and their experiences of death. Children’s lives and activities were framed also by the agonistic nature of first-century society, making
them susceptible to structural violence in various ways. The purpose of the paper is to track and trace children’s experience and in particular their agency in the ancient Roman world that were often hostile to little lives and bodies, and to consider the value of such studies for the interpretation of the New Testament.
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| ISSN: | 2075-2458 2616-907X |