Tamar and Her Botanical Image
In this article, the author talks about narrative episodes in the Hebrew Bible feature a character named Tamar: Judah's daughter-in-law in Gen 38 and David's daughter in 2 Sam 13. She argue that these Tamar figures can be linked to imagery evoked in the Genesis Apocryphon's reinterpre...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Scholar's Press
2020
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Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 139, Issue: 2, Pages: 301-318 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Abraham, Biblical person
/ Tamar Daughter of David
/ Bible. Samuel 2. 13
/ Genesis
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IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
Further subjects: | B
DAVID, King of Israel, ca. 1040-970 B.C
B SARAH (Biblical matriarch) B Bible. Old Testament B TAMAR Cham (Theatrical production) B Genesis Apocryphon |
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Summary: | In this article, the author talks about narrative episodes in the Hebrew Bible feature a character named Tamar: Judah's daughter-in-law in Gen 38 and David's daughter in 2 Sam 13. She argue that these Tamar figures can be linked to imagery evoked in the Genesis Apocryphon's reinterpretation of Sarai. It mentions that Abram's dream in the Genesis Apocryphon are linked not by fertility but rather by transgressive familial relations, and motif draws upon the botanical image of the date palm. |
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ISSN: | 1934-3876 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jbl.2020.0012 DOI: 10.15699/jbl.1392.2020.4 |