An Inverted Type-Scene?: Setting Parameters around a Jacob Cycle Sister-Wife Story
The sister-wife episodes in Genesis (Gen 12:10-20; 20:1-18; 26:1-13) are well documented in biblical scholarship. Occasionally, an equivalent story in the Jacob cycle (Gen 25-35) is proffered. This essay investigates the tenability of such a proposal. The primary contribution is setting parameters a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2021, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 681-695 |
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Jacob
/ Method
/ Sister
/ Type
/ Scene
/ Bible. Genesis 12,10-20
/ Bible. Genesis 20,1-18
/ Bible. Genesis 25-35
/ Bible. Genesis 26,1-13
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | The sister-wife episodes in Genesis (Gen 12:10-20; 20:1-18; 26:1-13) are well documented in biblical scholarship. Occasionally, an equivalent story in the Jacob cycle (Gen 25-35) is proffered. This essay investigates the tenability of such a proposal. The primary contribution is setting parameters around the proposed germane fourth story, through integrative exegetical methodologies, to properly assess the smattering of resonant motifs common between Gen 29-31 and the standard type-scene. By bracketing the texts anterior and posterior to the sister-wife stories, a common preface and postface emerge: a wife-at-the-well type-scene and the form-critical element of covenant-making, respectively. With this exegetical framing in place, the numerous motifs in the Jacob cycle—typically crafted via inversion—shared with the other sister-wife stories is cogent enough to conclude that there is a viable case of an inverted sister-wife type-scene in Gen 29-31. Furthermore, a hypothetical rationale for its literary inversion is elaborated. https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2021/v34n3a3 |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17159/2312-3621/2021/v34n3a3 |