What Are These Sons Doing? Filial Agency in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Writings
Published in Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
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 ...