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Doubling and Duplicating in the Book of Genesis : Literary and Stylistic Approaches to the Text /

The style of the Hebrew Bible has long been of significant interest to scholars and exegetes alike. Early Jewish and later Christian commentaries point out the importance of the exact wording in interpreting the text, and many an article has been written on features such as repetition and inclusio....

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Otros Autores: Bauks, Michaela (Contribuidor), Grossman, Jonathan (Contribuidor), Hayes, Elizabeth R. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Hildebrandt, Samuel (Contribuidor), Matskevich, Karalina (Contribuidor), Miller-Naudé, Cynthia L. (Contribuidor), Naudé, Jacobus A. (Contribuidor), Nõmmik, Urmas (Contribuidor), Rendsburg, Gary A. (Contribuidor), Savran, George (Contribuidor), Shimon, Zvi (Contribuidor), Vermeulen, Karolien (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Stylistics of Genesis
  • Part 1 Formal Doubles and the Whole
  • 1 Doubled Request and Doubled Refusal: The Verb פצר in Biblical Narrative
  • 2 The Expulsion of Ishmael Narrative: Boundaries, Structure, and Meaning
  • 3. The Proof-and-Play of Quoted Speech in the Joseph Story (Genesis 37-50)
  • 4. The Intersection of Orality and Style in Biblical Hebrew: Metapragmatic Representations of Dialogue in Genesis 34
  • 5. Alliteration in the Book of Genesis
  • Part 2 Thematic Pairs
  • 6. One, Two, or Three . . . ? The Confusion of the Trees in Genesis 2-3 and Its Hermeneutical Background
  • 7. The Art of Blessing and Cursing in Genesis 1-11: Stylistic Patterns and Their Ideological Motivation
  • 8. Distinguishing Abraham from the "Terahides": The Ideology of Separation behind Etiology
  • Part 3 Doubling Plots and Duplicating Stories
  • 9. Whose World? Whose Time? A Text World Theory Examination of the Style and Message of Genesis 1:1- 2:25
  • 10. Double-Plotting in the Garden: Stylistics of Ambiguity in Genesis 2-3
  • 11. Inclusio in Genesis 28 and 32: Synchronically and Diachronically
  • Indexes