CONSTRUINDO CIDADANIA DE CRIANÇAS - PELOS VEIOS DA HERMENÊUTICA JURÍDICA E BÍBLICA INFANTIL

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to contribute towards the reconstruction of the concept of child citizenship. There for, we research the use of the greek words bréfos, corásion, país, téknon, thygáter, népios e huiós, in the texts of the Novum Testamentum Graece, trying to observe the child as an hermeneutic, legal and religious subjects, in different dimensions of time, geographic space and social environment. Then we delve into the reality of brazilian childhood, using Legal Hermeneutics as expressed by the absolute priority principle` that the child holds in our legal system. Afterwards, investigate the patriarchal worlds, of ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean Sea, focusing on Greek, Roman and Palestine cultures, to reelaborate histories of children, questioning about their social status until the first century, for its importance in cultural interchange, pointing out differences in and merging similarities conditions of children treatment practices, thus helping construct citizenship. After studing the ancient context as backdrop to those who witnessed and lived the events described in the Gospel, that helps we understand our patriarchies roots (legal, cultural) greco-romans and jewish, we ll be able to contextualize the reality of the bible child and finally carry through the new perspective we want to present: read the Bible with eyes of a child in order to formulate the Infant(ile) Biblical Hermeneutic. We notice the suffering reality of biblical child and the ancient world are not that far from our brazilian children nowadays. The intention is to untie the child from those exegesis and hermeneutics that by childhood excluding speeches from their discourse, resulting from adultcentered, patriarchal and androcentric interpretations and traditions, makes children invisible in the New Testament scriptures.