Honouring age : the social dynamics of age structure in I Timothy /
"We all age. But how we understand age and aging depends on cultural context. The early followers of Jesus experienced growing up and growing old in a world where more than a third of children never reached adulthood, married women could expect to become widows, and, above all, elders were to b...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Montreal ; Chicago:
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2023]
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| Serier: | Studies in Christianity and Judaism ;
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Why Study Age in 1 Timothy?
- Mediterranean Dynamics of Age Structure and 1 Timothy
- One Letter, Two Stories: Rhetoric and Crisis
- Ideal Behaviour in the "Household of God" (1 Tim. 5:1-2)
- Categorizing Widows: Definitions and Responsibilities
- Why Sixty?
- Younger Widows and Age Hierarchy among Women
- A Believing Woman
- Elders
- Intergenerational Conflict in 1 Timothy: The Big Picture
- The Visibility of Age.