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The Exposure of Infants Among Jews and Christians in Antiquity

[Hardback]

by Erkki Koskenniemi

    • Author

      Erkki Koskenniemi

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd

    • Published

      February 2009

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      The Exposure of Infants Among Jews and Christians in Antiquity

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      Product Description

      This practice, so distasteful to the modern conscience, and shocking when we encounter it in reading about the ancient world, was nevertheless a normal feature of life in classical antiquity. There can be little doubt that both Jews and Christians, like their neighbours, practised the exposure of infants, whether for economic reasons, or because the child was of the wrong gender, or because of its illegitimacy. Otherwise, one can hardly explain the rich variety of arguments against the custom in rabbinic and patristic literature. In this novel and penetrating study, Koskenniemi reviews the evidence for the practice from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian sources, and then, in the major part of the book, examines the rejection of the custom by Jewish authors like Philo and Josephus and by Christian writers such as Clement, Justin, Tertullian, Origen, Chrysostom and Augustine, many of whom adopted the arguments of their Jewish counterparts.

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      • Author

        Erkki Koskenniemi

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd

      • Published

        February 2009

      • Weight

        468g

      • Page Count

        208

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 13 mm

      • ISBN

        9781906055127

      • ISBN-10

        1906055122

      • Eden Code

        2345770

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      • Author/Creator: Erkki Koskenniemi

      • ISBN: 9781906055127

      • Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd

      • Release Date: February 2009

      • Weight: 468g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 13 mm

      • Eden Code: 2345770

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