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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 by McDonald, Joseph is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Author

McDonald, Joseph

Publisher

T&T Clark, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780567689122

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible