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Why Ask My Name Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative
Author: Adele Reinhartz
Unnamed characters--such as Lot's wife, Jephthah's daughter, Pharaoh's baker, and the witch of Endor--are ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible and appear in a wide variety of roles. Adele Reinhartz here seeks to answer two principal questions: first, is there a "poetics of anonymity," and if so, what are its contours? Second, how does anonymity affect...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195099706
ISBN-10: 0195099702
Publication Date: 11/12/1998
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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