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Childhood in Ancient Israel—What Can We Know?
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Pop quiz—name a famous kid from the Hebrew Bible. Baby Moses? Teenage David? That's about it. The Bible may be largely silent about childhood, but we can gather clues from archeology and ethnography to piece together a picture of what it was like to be a kid in ancient Israel.
Special guest Kristine Garroway from Hebrew Union College joins Helen and Dave to reconstruct family life in ancient Israel: the spiritual anxieties around pregnancy, the rules of ancient adoption, and the chore lists assigned to little Israelite boys and girls.
For more, check out Kristine's book, Growing Up in Ancient Israel: Children in Material Culture and Biblical Texts.
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Theme music written and performed by Dave Roos
88 episodes
Manage episode 379252527 series 3512279
Pop quiz—name a famous kid from the Hebrew Bible. Baby Moses? Teenage David? That's about it. The Bible may be largely silent about childhood, but we can gather clues from archeology and ethnography to piece together a picture of what it was like to be a kid in ancient Israel.
Special guest Kristine Garroway from Hebrew Union College joins Helen and Dave to reconstruct family life in ancient Israel: the spiritual anxieties around pregnancy, the rules of ancient adoption, and the chore lists assigned to little Israelite boys and girls.
For more, check out Kristine's book, Growing Up in Ancient Israel: Children in Material Culture and Biblical Texts.
Support the show
Theme music written and performed by Dave Roos
88 episodes
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