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"Why ask my name?" : anonymity and identity in Biblical narrative / Adele Reinhartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reinhartz, Adele, 1953- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament--Psychology.
- Names in the Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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', and, if so, what its contours and effects are.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. ANONYMITY AND THE EFFACEMENT OF PERSONAL IDENTITY; PART II. ANONYMITY AND THE EXPRESSION OF PERSONAL IDENTITY; PART III. ANONYMITY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF PERSONAL IDENTITY; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index of Scriptural Citations; Index of Modern Authors; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and indexes.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-774189-4
- 1-280-65493-7
- 0-19-535671-3
- 0-585-36271-8
- OCLC:
- 476005849
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