A Sign For You
A Child Savior Revealed to Child Shepherds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21586063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Lindeman Allen (0009-0005-0069-9389, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN USA, [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229-255 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biblical Interpretation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0927-2569 • E-ISSN: 1568-5152 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685152-00284p05 |
| OpenAlex | W3096876262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Drawing on parallels from Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Early Christian sources alongside of sociological models of agriculture in subsistence economies, this essay makes the case for the presence (if not preponderance) of child shepherds among those who receive the angelic message in Luke 2:1–20. By engaging a childist reading that both considers the position of the shepherds with regards to their economic and social standing in Bethlehem and re-reads the angelic message and proclamation of an infant as sign in light of such a youthful audience, this essay reframes the perceived identity of the Bethlehem shepherds to foreground the children in their midst
Aesthetics · Agriculture · Archaeology · Art · Biblical studies · Judaism · Literature · Parallels · Political science · Proclamation · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Development, Ethics, and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |