The Abduction of Dinah: Reading Genesis 28:10-35:15 as a Votive Narrative

Name: The Abduction of Dinah: Reading Genesis 28:10-35:15 as a Votive Narrative
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Author: Daniel Hankore
ISBN: 9781610979917

Reading Genesis 28:10-35:15 as a Votive Narrative

by Daniel Hankore

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274 pages
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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Synopsis: Daniel Hankore argues that the story of Genesis 28:10--35:15 has been misunderstood and mistranslated for two thousand years. He seeks to shed new light on it from Ethiopia's Hadiyya culture, revealing Genesis 28:10--35:15 to be a votive narrative. Making use of relevance theory Hankore tries to reconstruct the intended message of the story from the narrator's point of view. Genesis 28:10--35:15 is presented as a coherent narrative unit and each episode of the story, including the Dinah story, is a part of the building blocks of the discourse structure of this coherent votive narrative. Hankore shows that a correct understanding of the Hebrew concept