TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bosworth,David Alan
TI  - Infant weeping in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Greek literature
T2  - Critical studies in the Hebrew Bible
SN  - 9781575064642
AV  - PJ3791 
U1  - 809/.93354 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Winona Lake, Indiana
PB  - Eisenbrauns
KW  - Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
KW  - Crying in infants
KW  - Abandoned children
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Greek literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Pleurs chez le nourrisson
KW  - Enfants abandonnés
KW  - Enseignement biblique
KW  - Littérature grecque
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Title; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Infant Crying; Chapter 2: Infant Crying in Mesopotamia; Chapter 3: Weeping in Infant Abandonment Stories in the Old Testament; Chapter 4: Weeping in Infant Abandonment Stories in Ancient Greek Literature; Chapter 5: Comparative Perspectives; Appendix: Concordance of Baby Incantations; Works Cited; Index of Ancient and Modern Authors; Index of Scripture; Index of Other Ancient Sources
N2  - Those who have spent time within earshot of a crying baby know the stress this sound can induce. Considerable scientific research has been devoted to the causes and consequences of infant crying because it is a public health concern implicated in parental frustration and infant abuse. Infant Weeping seeks to draw on the extensive research on infant crying in order to understand better the motif of infant weeping in ancient literature. The present book contributes to the growing interest in correlating scientific and humanities scholarship. Scientific research can help bridge the cultural distan
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