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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964513703321

Autore

Reinhartz Adele <1953->

Titolo

"Why ask my name?" : anonymity and identity in Biblical narrative / / Adele Reinhartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-774189-4

1-280-65493-7

0-19-535671-3

0-585-36271-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

221.6

Soggetti

Names in the Bible

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.