Jewish Childhood in the Roman World

Children in the New Testament

“…Early Jewish and Christian families were not contained to the regions of Judea and Galilee, but rather, lived across the geographical and cultural intersections of the empire due both to diaspora and conversion. As such, scholars of early Judaism and Christianity have sought to highlight the specific experiences of children and families within the wider Roman culture through scholarship dedicated to children and families in early Jewish (Kraemer 1989;Cohen 1993;Botha 1998;Bovon 2002;Marcus 2004;Tropper 2006;Dorff 2012;Sasson 2012;Yinger 2013;Murphy 2014;Garroway 2018;Sivan 2018) and Christian households and literature (Currie 1993;Osiek 1995;Strange 1996;Moxnes 1997;Osiek and Balch 1997;Bovon 1999;Bunge 2001;Bovon 2002;Balch and Osiek 2003;Bakke 2005;Balla 2005;Aasgaard 2006;Osiek, MacDonald, and Tulloch 2006;Horn and Martens 2009;Horn and Phenix 2009;Lindemann 2010;Lutterbach 2010;Miller-McLemore 2010;Punt 2010;Zwilling 2010;Leyerle 2013;MacDonald 2014;Solevåg 2017;Lietaert Peerbolte 2021), including a few studies combining the two (Hess and Carroll 2003;Koskenniemi 2009;King 2013;Tuor-Kurth 2010;Yamauchi and Wilson, 2014). ...…”

What Is “Contemporary American Jewish Education”?

“…Our travels have taken us to diverse venues, vocabularies, and versions of educational language. In this chapter, our journey will take us to the worlds and language of contemporary American Jewish education whichlike Jewish education throughout the ages-is influenced both by internal Jewish educational contexts and by external general educational cultures in the diverse societies in which Jews have lived (Divan 2018). This chapter focuses on explicating the varied meanings of the phrase "contemporary American Jewish education".…”