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Why Ask My Name?: Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative

By Adele Reinhartz

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1998
ISBN
0195099702, 9780195099706
LCC
BS1199.N2 R45 1998
Google Books ID
YsjjtGQyR60C
Open Library ID
OL696707M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1366328 bytes)
Pages
226\226
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Unnamed characters--such as Lot's wife, Jephthah's daughter, Pharaoh'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: 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? The author is especially interested in issues related to gender and class, seeking to determine whether anonymity is more prominent among mothers, wives, daughters, and servants than among fathers, husbands, sons and kings and whether the anonymity of female characters functions differently from that of male characters.

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