Download or read book Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature written by Angelo Passaro and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature. After analyzing the topic family in a narrow sense of the term, the articles investigate general ideas of morality, respect, or love and take a critical look at representations of gender, power, and social norms in Judaism and Early Christianity.