By Adele Reinhartz
ISBN-10: 0195099702
ISBN-13: 9780195099706
Unnamed characters--such as Lot's spouse, Jephthah's daughter, Pharaoh's baker, and the witch of Endor--are ubiquitous within the Hebrew Bible and seem in a large choice of roles. Adele Reinhartz the following seeks to reply to significant questions: first, is there a "poetics of anonymity," and if this is the case, what are its contours? moment, how does anonymity impact the readers' reaction to and development of unnamed biblical characters? the writer is mainly drawn to concerns relating to gender and sophistication, looking to be sure no matter if anonymity is extra well-liked between moms, better halves, daughters, and servants than between fathers, husbands, sons and kings and no matter if the anonymity of lady characters features another way from that of male characters.
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To illustrate these points, we turn to two extended sagas in which servants are the linchpins in both plot and characterization. This recommendation marks the beginning of Joseph's meteoric rise to power in Egypt. The action of the captain contributes to the narrative structure of the Joseph saga, which depicts Joseph's cyclical for Page 35 3 tunes in his repeated rise to evergreater power within the family constellation, Potiphar's household, prison and the pinnacle, Pharaoh's kingdom. Instead, Joseph interacts directly with his father and brothers, indicating that the relationships have been restored.
Such failure would have meant loss of face and status on the part of the servant, as the one who had failed despite his best efforts to remedy Isaac's unmarried state. "14 11 JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis (Philadelphia: JPS, 1989), 173. 12 Sarna, JPS Genesis, 173. Savran, Telling and Retelling: Quotation in Biblical Narrative (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 46. Song 3:4; 8:2. But the servant recognizes that it is also important to persuade the girl. But the decision to depart immediately comes from Rebecca (24:58), further testimony to his persuasive powers and to the family dynamics in which her decision carries weight.
None of these answers satisfied a child who herself was aware of the many ways in which school, family, and society forbid her from looking. Alan Aycock (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 113–19. (OTL; Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1972), 121. 23 IB, 630. Von Rad (Genesis, 221) suggests that the biblical story may present the etiology of an unusual rock formation. 25 That his wife is present in the house is indicated in Gen 19:15, when she, along with Lot and their daughters, is brought out of the house by the angels and taken out of the city.
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