‘Reckless Eyeballing’: Written and Oral Narratives in Genesis 16.4-5

This essay considers how current theories of narrative (both written and oral) inform how we read the complexities of the relationship(s) among Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar in Gen. 16.4-5. It argues that, while we may no longer have access to the oral counter narrative of Gen. 16.4-5, deconstructive cr...

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主要作者: Splawn, Jane (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Sage 2013
In: Feminist theology
Year: 2013, 卷: 21, 發布: 2, Pages: 173-179
Further subjects:B Abraham
B slave surrogates
B Sarah
B Womanist Theology
B Old Testament concubines
B Egyptian slave girls
B Hagar
B Old Testament patriarchs
B Feminist Theology
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總結:This essay considers how current theories of narrative (both written and oral) inform how we read the complexities of the relationship(s) among Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar in Gen. 16.4-5. It argues that, while we may no longer have access to the oral counter narrative of Gen. 16.4-5, deconstructive criticism, which–among other things – teaches us that a text can be most revealing in those places in which it is most notably silent, may allow for a possible recovery of the oral, unrecorded narrative of the servant Hagar.
ISSN:1745-5189
Contains:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0966735012464147