Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple era: images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities

"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"...

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Main Author: McDonald, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: [London, England] T & T Clark 2020
In: Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible (24)
Year: 2020
Reviews:[Rezension von: McDonald, Joseph, Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple era : images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities] (2021) (Grafius, Brandon R.)
[Rezension von: McDonald, Joseph, Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple era : images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities] (2022) (Kato, Teppei)
[Rezension von: McDonald, Joseph, Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple era : images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities] (2023) (Rabel, Magnus)
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible 24
Library of New Testament studies 693
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sarah / Old Testament / Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls / Jewish literature
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Bible. Genesis Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Women and religion (Middle East)
B Sara - (Personnage biblique)
B Biblical studies & exegesis
B Sarah (Biblical matriarch)
B Bible - Critique, interprétation, etc
B Electronic books
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Summary:"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 agency often struggle to escape limitations placed upon her - both by other characters, such as Abraham and God, and by the narrators of her tales."--
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction, studies of Sarah, and aspects of my approach -- Chapter 2: Sarah in the Masoretic Text -- Chapter 3: Sarra in the Septuagint Chapter -- 4: Sarai in the Genesis Apocryphon -- Chapter 5: Sarra in the Jewish Antiquities -- Chapter 6: Conclusions, contributions, and prospects -- Bibliography.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN:0567689123
Access:Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5040/9780567689146