One Voice or Many?: The Identity of the Narrators in Noah’s Birth Story (1QapGen 1–5.27) and in the ‘Book of the Words of Noah’ (1QapGen 5.29–18.23)
The present article explores the puzzling variety of narrative voices in the so-called Genesis Apocryphon from Qumran Cave 1. Lamech, Noah, and Abram in turn act as first person narrator, and all three of these stories also include third person narration. Focusing on the columns preceding the Abram...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2010
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Aramaic studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 8, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 89-105 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Genesis-Apokryphon (Qumran Scrolls)
/ Noachiden
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Genesis Apocryphon
Narrative Voices
Source Criticism
Birth of Noah
Book of the Words of Noah
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| Summary: | The present article explores the puzzling variety of narrative voices in the so-called Genesis Apocryphon from Qumran Cave 1. Lamech, Noah, and Abram in turn act as first person narrator, and all three of these stories also include third person narration. Focusing on the columns preceding the Abram story, it is shown that both the account of Noah’s birth (1–5.27) and the ‘Book of the Words of Noah’ (5.29–18.23) are basically narrated in the first person by Lamech and Noah, respectively. It is concluded that the rare shifts to third person narration are not unusual in ancient Jewish literature. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contains: | In: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/147783510X571605 |