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Old Age in Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, and Their Contexts: Senescence and Its Significations

Old Age in Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, and Their Contexts: Senescence and Its Significations

Oegema, Albertina
Bledsoe, Seth A.

Hardcover

Ancient GreeceAncient RomeGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1032665041
ISBN13: 9781032665047
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 8 2025
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The collection of chapters in this volume explores the significance of old age for Jews and Christians as well as Greeks and Romans in antiquity.

By examining a diverse range of sources, the authors in this volume elaborate on the manifold ways that old age functioned as a social discourse in ancient Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Roman contexts. The discussions herein demonstrate how perceptions of old age were closely intertwined with notions of authority and wisdom, gender and social dynamics, social and familial anxieties, and the body and disability. They show that conceptualizations of old age are far more prevalent and significant to ancient social and political structures, rhetorical discourse, and religious imagination than one might expect. By including studies on old age in different religious and cultural contexts, the volume highlights the commonalities, as well as the many differences, that existed among various communities in antiquity.

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