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Why Ask My Name? Nonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative

Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative

by Adele Reinhartz (associate Professor Of Biblical Studies, Associate Professor Of Biblical Studies, Mcmaster University, Canada)

  • Hardback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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Anonymous characters - such as Lot's wife, Jephthah's daughter, Pharoah's baker, and the witch of Endor - are ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, and appear in a wide variety of roles. Adele Reinhartz here seeks to answer two principal questions concerning this aspect of biblical narrative. First, is there a "poetics of anonymity," and if so, what are its contours? Second, how does anonymity affect the readers' response to, and construction of, unnamed biblical characters. She is especially interested in issues related to gender, seeking to determine whether female characters are more likely to be anonymous than male characters, and whether the anonymity of female characters functions differently from that of male characters.

  • Author

    Adele Reinhartz (associate Professor Of Biblical Studies, Associate Professor Of Biblical Studies, Mcmaster University, Canada)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    December 1998

  • Weight

    527g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195099706

  • ISBN-10

    0195099702

  • Eden Code

    1146720

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