TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liansangzuala, F H 
TI  - Family and Sustainable Social Order: A Sociological Reading of Selected Texts of the Old Testament 
SN  - 9789351485872
U1  - B45.1 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - Christian World Imprints
N1  - 1. General Introduction .....1
The Problem and its Importance ..........2
Scope and Limitation......3
Explaining the Lead Terms .......4
2. Nature and Dynamics of the Family: A Sociological Overview .........11
Types of Family .........12
Basis for the Universality of Family ........15
Changes in Family Patterns and Life ......17
Family in anciety west Asia .......21
Nature and Dynamics of Family in the Old Testament .......23
3. The Social World of Family in the Deutoronomistic Tradition : A Socio Historical Survey ...........36
Israelite Society as Portrayed in the Deuteronomistic Tradition.......36
The Deuteronomic Reformation ........56
Deuteronomic Reformation and its Interface with the Family Motif ........60
4. Family in the Deuteronomistic Tradition: A Sociological Reading of Selected Family Texts .......63
Positive View and Emphasis on the Family ........64
Negative View and Emphasis on the Family .......93
5. Significance of Deuteronomistic Emphases on Family ......119

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