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What Are These Sons Doing? **Filial Agency in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Writings** by Albertina Oegema is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is What Are These Sons Doing? **Filial Agency in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Writings** about?
## 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.
Who reads What Are These Sons Doing? **Filial Agency in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Writings**?
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- Author
- Albertina Oegema
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)