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Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era - Images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities (Hardcover)
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Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era - Images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities (Hardcover)
Series: Scriptural Traces
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Seeking to build upon recent scholarship based on Biblical women,
Joseph McDonald uses a character-centered literary approach to read
the story of Sarah as it was told and retold in the Second Temple
period. McDonald offers an alternative to the usual approaches to
"rewritten Bible" narratives, which often emphasize near-context,
synoptic comparison of retold stories and their scriptural
precursors, arguing that examination of retold narratives as
narratives reveals important aspects of their internal literary
effects, that may otherwise go unnoticed. Taken together, McDonald
suggests that such readings reveal one of Sarah's trans-narrative
or "deep traits," as a curious, multi-faceted resemblance to the
character of Abraham. The richness of her images, however, shows
that this resemblance is not the ultimate distillation of Sarah,
but a symptom of the kind of restriction that she consistently
faces in this literature. McDonald concludes that creative readings
of the narratives featuring Sarah in the Hebrew Bible, the
Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Jewish Antiquities of
Josephus illuminate Sarah as a complex and sometimes contradictory
figure, whose individuality and agency often struggle to escape
limitations placed upon her - both by other characters, such as
Abraham and God, and by the narrators of her tales.
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Imprint: |
T. & T. Clark
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Scriptural Traces |
Release date: |
February 2020 |
Authors: |
Joseph McDonald
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-567-68912-2 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-567-68912-3 |
Barcode: |
9780567689122 |
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