Sarah, Rebekah, and the unchangeable ruble: unrecognized folkloric background of the "wife-sister" stories in Genesis
The article demonstrates that recognizing the “wife-sister” pattern in Genesis as a variation of the “magical self-returning object” motif, represented in the folklore of several cultures, can go a long way in explaining the origin of this pattern and its uniquely massive presence in the ancestral c...
| Published in: | Biblische Notizen |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Herder
2011
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| In: |
Biblische Notizen
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Genesis 12,10-20
/ Bible. Genesis 20,1-18
/ Bible. Genesis 26,1-11
/ Wife
/ Sister
/ Deception
B Sarah / Abraham, Biblical person / Wife / Sister / Deception B Rebecca / Isaac / Wife / Sister / Deception |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Genesis 26
B Sarah B Rebecca B Motivgeschichte Subject B Bible. Genesis 20 B Bible. Genesis 12 |
| Summary: | The article demonstrates that recognizing the “wife-sister” pattern in Genesis as a variation of the “magical self-returning object” motif, represented in the folklore of several cultures, can go a long way in explaining the origin of this pattern and its uniquely massive presence in the ancestral cycles of the Hebrew Bible. Der Aufsatz legt dar, dass man im „Ehefrau-Schwester“-Raster des Buches Genesis auf eine Abwandlung des Motivs des „magical self-returning object“ stößt. Dieser Raster findet sich im Volkstum mehrerer Kulturen. Darin zeigt sich eine lange Entwicklungslinie des Ursprungs dieses Musters, das auffällig häufig in den Erzeltern-Zyklen der Hebräischen Bibel vorkommt. |
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| ISSN: | 0178-2967 |
| Contains: | In: Biblische Notizen
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