'Why Ask My Name?' : Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative
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Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
0195099702
ISBN-13
9780195099706
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
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Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 10th, 1998
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
544 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 24.20 x 2.80 cms
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Anonymous characters, such as Lot's wife, are common in the Hebrew Bible, appearing in a variety of roles. This book examines whether there is a "poetics of anonymity", if so, what its contours are, and how anonymity affects readers' responses to unnamed characters, particularly female characters.
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 answers 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, determining 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.
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