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Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art
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Evil Children in Religion, Literature and Art explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult. Originating in the biblical tale of Elisha's mockery (2 Kings 2.23-24), this motif recurs in literature, hagiography, and art, from antiquity up to our own time, strikingly defying the conventional Judeo-Christian and Romantic image of the child as a symbol of innocence.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Evil Children in Religion,Literature, and Art
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Bad Boys of Bethel as Sacrilegious Type
- 2 Patristic and Medieval Views of 2 Kings 2.23â24
- 3 Children of the Passion
- 4 Urchins Plaguing Saints
- 5 The Bethel Boys Motif at the Dawn of Modernity
- 6 Nineteenth-Century Antitypes
- 7 Twentieth-Century Antitypes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Biblical Index
- General Index