A Sign For You: A Child Savior Revealed to Child Shepherds
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 eng...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 229-255 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jesus Christ, Birth
/ Jesus Christus
/ Shepherd
/ Child
/ Sign
/ Classical antiquity
/ Roman Empire
/ Israel (Antiquity)
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| RelBib Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions HC New Testament KBL Near East and North Africa TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Further subjects: | B
Shepherd
B Christmas B Shepherds B childist B Luke B Nativity B Sign B Children |
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