Did Hagar give Ishmael up for dead? Gen. 21.14-21 re-visited
This article advances the thesis that Hagar’s statement in Gen. 21.16, ‘Let me not look upon the death of the child’, is not so much a despairing whimper of resignation as it is a cohortative prayer for divine intervention. Accordingly, the ‘casting’ of her son under a bush is not an act of exposure...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2020, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 517-531 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Adoption
/ Hagar, Biblical person
/ Ishmael
/ Death
/ Abandonment (Criminal law)
/ Freigabe
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
cast
B exposure B Ishmael B Death B Gen. 21.14-21 B Hagar B Bibel. Genesis, 21,14-21 B Adoption B Keywords Adoption |
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| Summary: | This article advances the thesis that Hagar’s statement in Gen. 21.16, ‘Let me not look upon the death of the child’, is not so much a despairing whimper of resignation as it is a cohortative prayer for divine intervention. Accordingly, the ‘casting’ of her son under a bush is not an act of exposure, but a signal of the child’s availability for adoption. Attending to the vocabulary and syntax of Hagar’s ordeal, then, we understand the scene to represent the enactment of Ishmael’s name, ‘God hears’. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089219862822 |