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"Why ask my name?"

Name: "Why ask my name?"
Author: Adele Reinhartz

Adele Reinhartz

10 December 1998

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Book Synopsis

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.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780195099706
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, (10 December 1998)
Number of Pages: 226
Weight: 544 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 28.2 mm
Categories:: Judaism Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts Literary theory Religious groups and communities Gender studies and groups