Assistant Professor of Ancient Judaism Seth A. Bledsoe, together with Dr. Albertina Oegema (Universität Mainz), has co-edited a new scholarly volume: Old Age in Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, and Their Contexts (Routledge).
This collection brings together contributions from biblical scholars, classicists, and ancient historians to explore the significance of old age across Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Roman traditions. By engaging a wide range of sources, the chapters illuminate how old age functioned as a powerful social discourse in antiquity.
This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of religion, classics, and ancient history, as well as gerontologists seeking to explore the historical background of present-day notions of old age.
For more information and a detailed overview of the contents, please visit the Routledge page.
Editor(s)
Albertina Oegema is Postdoctoral Researcher in New Testament Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
Seth A. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of Ancient Judaism at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.