Bibframe Work

Introduction / Marcia J. Bunge

Texts from the Hebrew Scriptures

"God was with the boy" (Genesis 21:20) : children in the Book of Genesis / Terence E. Fretheim

Exodus as a "text of terror" for children / Claire R. Mathews McGinnis

That the children may know : children in Deuteronomy / Patrick D. Miller

To discipline without destruction : the multifaceted profile of the child in Proverbs / William P. Brown

"Look! The children and I are as signs and portents in Israel" : children in Isaiah / Jacqueline E. Lapsley

"Israel, my child" : the ethics of a biblical metaphor / Brent A. Strawn

Texts from the New Testament

Children in the Gospel of Mark, with special attention to Jesus' blessing of the children (Mark 10:13-16) and the purpose of Mark / Judith M. Gundry

"What then will this child become?" : perspectives on children in the Gospel of Luke / John T. Carroll

Children in the Gospel of John / Marianne Meye Thompson

"Tell me a story" : perspectives on children from the Acts of the Apostles / Joel B. Green

Finding a place for children in the letters of Paul / Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Like a child : Paul's rhetorical uses of childhood / Reidar Aasgaard

A place of belonging : perspectives on children from Colossians and Ephesians / Margaret Y. MacDonald

Thematic essays

Children and the image of God / W. Sibley Towner

Child characters in biblical narratives : the young David (1 Samuel 16-17) and the little Israelite servant girl (2 Kings 5:1-19) / Esther M. Menn

"He placed a little child in the midst" : Jesus, the Kingdom, and children / Keith J. White

Adoption in the Bible / David L. Bartlett

Vulnerable children, divine passion, and human obligation / Walter Brueggemann