Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
113,2 (2022) 261-283
Keywords:
New Testament Parables
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Fathers and sons Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Children Religious aspects Early church, ca. 30-600
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Christianity
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History
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Rabbinical literature History and criticism
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Rabbinical literature Relation to the New Testament
Abstract:
Scholarship on children and childhood in the New Testament and the Hebrew Bible increasingly uses the term “agency” for children’s actions. However, the use of this term remains undertheorized. This article offers a theoretically informed usage of the concept “agency” so as to analyze the dynamics in children’s actions. With a comparative study of Synoptic and early rabbinic parables, it is examined how a son’s agency interrelates with his father’s exercise of authority. It is also shown how the behaviour of these sons is implicitly or explicitly assessed from the adult male perspective of the head of the household. Finally, since the agency of sons frequently represents the human free will in relation to God, the article explains how the Synoptic and early rabbinic parables socialize their audiences in their correct attitude toward God.
DOI:
10.1515/znw-2022-0013
URL:
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