Preface -- Abbreviations -- From Tobit to Ben Sira: from nostalgia to the recovery of fatherhood -- The Emotional Relationship of the Married Couple Hannah and Tobit -- Tobit and Tobias: A Model for an Ideal Father-Son Relationship -- "I Am My Father's Only Daughter." Sarah's Unbalanced Relationship with Her Parents in the Book of Tobit -- The relationship between husband and wife according to Sirach 25-26, 36 -- Polygamy in Ben Sira? -- Respect and Care for Parents in Sirach 3:1-16 -- "The wisdom teaches their sons" (Sir 4:11). And the daughters? - Sons of Ben Sirach -- Daughters and Their Father(s) in the Book of Ben Sira -- Occasions when Wisdom replaces the Mother as Educator in Sirach and the Related Literature -- The Fate of the Impious and of their Families -- "I loved [Wisdom] and sought her from my youth -- I desired to take her for my Counsellor" (Wis 8:2a). Solomon and Wisdom: An example of the Closest Intimacy -- Esther's Family: Ethnicity, Politics and Religion -- The Praise of the Widow? Changes in the Judith Narrative -- The Family Measure in 2 Maccabees: A Mother and Her Seven Sons (2 Macc 7:1-42) -- Religious identity and its development. What may Children learn from their Elders? -- Parents Rejoice Over Their Children: Examples in the Psalms -- Jerusalem as Mother in Bar 4:5-5:9 -- Family Relationships in 4QInstruction -- Illicit Unions, Hybrid Sonship, and Intermarriage in Second Temple Judaism. 1 Enoch, Book of Giants, Jubilees -- Marriage and Family in Flavius Josephus's Contra Apionem (II, 199-206) against its Hellenistic background -- Contingencies and Innovations in the Household Codes of the Pauline Traditions (Col 3:18-4:1 -- Eph 5:21-6:9) -- Born or re-born? Identity and family bonds in 1 Peter and 4 Maccabees -- The Fathership of God in Early Rabbinic Liturgy.

The Role of the Family in Traditional Judaism -- The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah in the Venerable Bede's Commentary on Tobit -- Authors -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of References -- Index of Subjects.