FP Live 010 – Laurel Koepf-Taylor – Give Me Children or I Shall Die
Channel: FortressPress
Date: 29/09/2014

Welcome to episode ten of the Fortress Press Live podcast! In this episode, we speak with Laurel Koepf-Taylor about her book Give Me Children or I Shall Die: Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature, which is a part of the Emerging Scholars series published by Fortress Press.

IN THIS EPISODE WE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

-How did Laurel spark an interest in childhood studies?
-What is the “coffeehouse” model Laurel recommends for childhood studies?
-How is the idea of childhood socially or culturally constructed and what promise does this hold for enhancing biblical studies?
-What is different between the way children were valued in ancient times versus how a child is valued today?
-What were the ramifications of infertility on an individual family and their entire community in ancient times.

Read the show notes for this episode and subscribe to the podcast at http://fplive.fortresspress.com/010.