Children in the Bible and the ancient world comparative and historical methods in reading ancient children

List of contributorsForeword Part I: Children in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near EastChapter 1Vows and Children in the Hebrew BibleHeath D. DewrellChapter 2Turning Birth into Theology: Traces of Ancient Obstetric Knowledge within Narratives of Difficult Childbirth in the Hebrew Bible Claudia D. BergmannChapter 3Uncooperative Breeders: Parental Investment and Infant Abandonment in Hebrew and Greek NarrativeDavid A. BosworthChapter 4Failure to Marry: Girling Gone WrongKristine Henriksen Garroway Part II: Children in Christian Writings and the Greco-Roman WorldChapter 5Girls and Goddesses: The Gospel of Mark and the Eleusinian MysteriesSharon BetsworthChapter 6Children and Church: The Ritual Entry of Children into Pauline ChurchesJohn W. MartensChapter 7\"Stay away from my children!\": Educators and the Accusation of Sexual Abuse in Roman Antiquity Christian Laes Part III: Children and Material Culture Chapter 8I Bless You by YHWH of Samaria and His Barbie: A Case for Understanding Judean Pillar Figurines as Children\'s Toys Julie Faith ParkerChapter 9Coming of Age at St Stephen\'s: Bioarchaeology of Children at a Byzantine Jerusalem Monastery (5th-7th Centuries CE) Susan G. Sheridan  Afterword Chapter 10Protoevangelium of James, Menstruating Mary, and Twenty-First-Century Adolescence: Purity, Liminality, and the Sexual FemaleDoris M. Kieser