T&T Clark handbook of children in the Bible and the biblical world / edited by Sharon Betsworth and Julie Faith Parker.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-443) and indexes.

Introduction / Sharon Betsworth and Julie Faith Parker -- History of research on children in the Bible and the Biblical world: past developments, present state-and future potential / Reidar Aasgaard -- Accessing childhoods: interdisciplinary tools at the intersection of Biblical studies and childhood studies / Laurel W. Koepf Taylor -- Methodology: who is a child and where do we find children in the ancient Near East? / Kristine Henriksen Garroway -- The logic of sacrificing firstborn children / Heath D. Dewrell -- Children of Diaspora: the cultural politics of identity and diasporic childhood in the Book of Esther / Dong Sung Kim -- Children in Proverbs, proverbial children / Ericka S. Dunbar and Kenneth N. Ngwa -- God as a child in the Hebrew Bible? : playing with the possibilities / Julie Faith Parker -- Children and the memory of traumatic violence / Kathleen Gallagher Elkins -- A road-trip to manhood: Tobias's coming of age in Tobit 6-12 / Stephen M. Wilson -- Methodology: Who is a child and where do we find children in the Greco-Roman world? / John W. Martens -- Children playing in the marketplaces / Sharon Betsworth -- "Theirs is the Kingdom": children as proprietors of the Kingdom of God in Luke 18:15-17 / Amy Lindeman Allen -- The "lost boys" (and girls) of Q's "Neverland" / A. James Murphy -- Children, parents, and God/gods in interreligious Roman households and the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:14 / Judith M. Gundry -- Fathers and daughters in 1 Corinthians 7:36-38: the social implications of marriage in early Christian families / John W. Martens -- Absence and presence of children in the Apocryphal Acts / Anna Rebecca Solevåg -- Traveling with children: flight stories and pilgrimage routes in the Apocryphal Infancy Gospels / Tony Burke.

The study of children in the Bible and the biblical world speaks to a range of audiences; children are members of communities past and present, and the Bible continues to shape cultures and the lives of individuals worldwide. This volume provides a wealth of resources, taking both biblical studies and child-focused interdisciplinary research to new levels. Initial chapters provide a valuable orientation to the significance of the study of children and childhood in the biblical world and to recent advances in this rapidly growing area of research. Subsequent contributions display a range of creative methodological approaches, offering new insights into biblical and early Christian texts and the history of childhood in the ancient Near East.