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• Bar-Ilan, M., 'Childhood and its status in Biblical and Talmudic Societies', Bet-Mikra, 40/140 (1995), pp. 19-32 (Hebrew, English Abstract).

• Bar-Ilan, M., 'The Battered Jewish Child in Antiquity', (not in press yet), Available here for the first time.

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• Hopwood, Keith, Ancient Greece and Rome: A Bibliographical Guide, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995, pp. 24-25, 299.

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• Klein, Anita E., Child Life in Greek Art, New York 1932.

• Kraemer, D., 'Images of Childhood and Adolescence in Talmudic Literature', D. Kraemer (ed.), The Jewish Family: Metaphor and Memory, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 65-80.

• Krause, Jens-Uwe, Die Familie und weitere anthropologische Grundlagen, (Bibliographie zur romischen Sozialgeschichte 1), unter Mitwirkung von Bertram Eisenhauer, Konstanze Szelenyi und Susanne Tschirner, Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 1992.

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• Sourvinou-Inwood, C., Studies in girls' transitions: Aspects of the Arkteia and age representation in Attic iconography, Athene 1988.
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• Strubbe, Johan H.M., Het jonge kind, Kleio 12,2 (1982) 49-77 (Dutch: the Young Child).

• Veyne, Paul, (ed.), Histoire de la vie privee, Paris: Edition du Seuil, 1985 (=A History of Private Life, translated by: Arthur Goldhammer, Cambrdidge, Massachusetts - London 1987, 1992).

• Wiedemann, T., Adults and Children in the Roman Empire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press - Routledge, 1989.

• Yarbrough, O. Larry, 'Parents and Children in the Jewish Family of Antiquity', Shaye J. D. Cohen (ed.), The Jewish Family in Antiquity, Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1993, pp. 39-59.

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