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  • Angelo Passaro
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Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
This chapter is in the book Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Preface v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Abbreviations xi
  5. From Tobit to Ben Sira: from nostalgia to the recovery of fatherhood 1
  6. The Emotional Relationship of the Married Couple Hannah and Tobit 41
  7. Tobit and Tobias: A Model for an Ideal Father-Son Relationship 77
  8. “I Am My Father’s Only Daughter.” Sarah’s Unbalanced Relationship with Her Parents in the Book of Tobit 87
  9. The relationship between husband and wife according to Sirach 25-26, 36 107
  10. Polygamy in Ben Sira? 127
  11. Respect and Care for Parents in Sirach 3:1-1 139
  12. “The wisdom teaches their sons” (Sir 4:11). And the daughters? - Sons of Ben Sirach 173
  13. Daughters and Their Father(s) in the Book of Ben Sira 183
  14. Occasions when Wisdom replaces the Mother as Educator in Sirach and the Related Literature 203
  15. The Fate of the Impious and of their Families 221
  16. “I loved [Wisdom] and sought her from my youth; I desired to take her for my Counsellor” (Wis 8:2a). Solomon and Wisdom: An example of the Closest Intimacy 229
  17. Esther’s Family: Ethnicity, Politics and Religion 253
  18. The Praise of the Widow? Changes in the Judith Narrative 273
  19. The Family Measure in 2 Maccabees: A Mother and Her Seven Sons (2 Macc 7:1-42) 283
  20. Religious identity and its development. What may Children learn from their Elders? 301
  21. Parents Rejoice Over Their Children: Examples in the Psalms 331
  22. Jerusalem as Mother in Bar 4:5-5:9 363
  23. Family Relationships in 4QInstruction 377
  24. Illicit Unions, Hybrid Sonship, and Intermarriage in Second Temple Judaism. 1 Enoch, Book of Giants, Jubilees 405
  25. Marriage and Family in Flavius Josephus’s Contra Apionem (II, § 199–206) against its Hellenistic background 455
  26. Contingencies and Innovations in the Household Codes of the Pauline Traditions (Col 3:18-4:1; Eph 5:21-6:9) 467
  27. Born or re-born? Identity and family bonds in 1 Peter and 4 Maccabees 481
  28. The Fathership of God in Early Rabbinic Liturgy 505
  29. The Role of the Family in Traditional Judaism 527
  30. The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah in the Venerable Bede’s Commentary on Tobit 547
  31. Authors 559
  32. Index of Modern Authors 561
  33. Index of References 573
  34. Index of Subjects 581
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310436.v

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Preface v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Abbreviations xi
  5. From Tobit to Ben Sira: from nostalgia to the recovery of fatherhood 1
  6. The Emotional Relationship of the Married Couple Hannah and Tobit 41
  7. Tobit and Tobias: A Model for an Ideal Father-Son Relationship 77
  8. “I Am My Father’s Only Daughter.” Sarah’s Unbalanced Relationship with Her Parents in the Book of Tobit 87
  9. The relationship between husband and wife according to Sirach 25-26, 36 107
  10. Polygamy in Ben Sira? 127
  11. Respect and Care for Parents in Sirach 3:1-1 139
  12. “The wisdom teaches their sons” (Sir 4:11). And the daughters? - Sons of Ben Sirach 173
  13. Daughters and Their Father(s) in the Book of Ben Sira 183
  14. Occasions when Wisdom replaces the Mother as Educator in Sirach and the Related Literature 203
  15. The Fate of the Impious and of their Families 221
  16. “I loved [Wisdom] and sought her from my youth; I desired to take her for my Counsellor” (Wis 8:2a). Solomon and Wisdom: An example of the Closest Intimacy 229
  17. Esther’s Family: Ethnicity, Politics and Religion 253
  18. The Praise of the Widow? Changes in the Judith Narrative 273
  19. The Family Measure in 2 Maccabees: A Mother and Her Seven Sons (2 Macc 7:1-42) 283
  20. Religious identity and its development. What may Children learn from their Elders? 301
  21. Parents Rejoice Over Their Children: Examples in the Psalms 331
  22. Jerusalem as Mother in Bar 4:5-5:9 363
  23. Family Relationships in 4QInstruction 377
  24. Illicit Unions, Hybrid Sonship, and Intermarriage in Second Temple Judaism. 1 Enoch, Book of Giants, Jubilees 405
  25. Marriage and Family in Flavius Josephus’s Contra Apionem (II, § 199–206) against its Hellenistic background 455
  26. Contingencies and Innovations in the Household Codes of the Pauline Traditions (Col 3:18-4:1; Eph 5:21-6:9) 467
  27. Born or re-born? Identity and family bonds in 1 Peter and 4 Maccabees 481
  28. The Fathership of God in Early Rabbinic Liturgy 505
  29. The Role of the Family in Traditional Judaism 527
  30. The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah in the Venerable Bede’s Commentary on Tobit 547
  31. Authors 559
  32. Index of Modern Authors 561
  33. Index of References 573
  34. Index of Subjects 581
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