"Why Ask My Name?" Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative

ISBN-10: 0195099702

ISBN-13: 9780195099706

Edition: 1998

Authors: Adele Reinhartz

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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…

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/12/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.09" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction



Anonymity and the Effacement of Personal Identity



The Bit Players



Servants, Stewards and Armor-Bearers



Transmitters of Information



Anonymity and the Expression of Personal Identity



Wise Women and Unworthy Levites



Wayward Wives, Multifarious Mothers and Doomed Daughters



Anonymity and the Boundaries of Personal Identity



The Convergence of Characters



Character Confusion in the Heavenly Realm



Crossing the Threshold between Reader and Text


Conclusion


Selected Bibliography


Index of Scriptural Citations


Index of Modern Authors


Subject Index