Rituals and the Gendering of Children in the Pauline Letters
This paper explores the role of ritual in gendering children in biblical settings and in the NT in particular. In ancient society children were gendered in many ways, and rituals played important if different roles in the various contemporary contexts. In Roman society contemporary to the NT, the to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2023, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 245-261 |
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| Summary: | This paper explores the role of ritual in gendering children in biblical settings and in the NT in particular. In ancient society children were gendered in many ways, and rituals played important if different roles in the various contemporary contexts. In Roman society contemporary to the NT, the toga virilis ritual gendered boys and signalled their adulthood, their coming of age as adult men. In the NT where various socio-cultural contexts intersected, the Jewish frame of reference informs the references to certain rituals with circumcision taking pride of place. Such sentiments also inform the discourse of the Pauline letters, where distinctions between non-gendered children and male children (sons) carry significance. Tracing a few Pauline texts, the ritualised aspects of the gendering of children in the NT are considered. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2023.a943177 |