"Why Ask My Name?" : Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative.
Anonymous characters, such as Lot's wife, are common in the Hebrew Bible, appearing in a variety of roles. This book examines whether there is a "poetics of anonymity", if so, what its contours are, and how anonymity affects readers' responses to unnamed characters, particularly...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. ANONYMITY AND THE EFFACEMENT OF PERSONAL IDENTITY; PART II. ANONYMITY AND THE EXPRESSION OF PERSONAL IDENTITY; PART III. ANONYMITY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF PERSONAL IDENTITY; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index of Scriptural Citations; Index of Modern Authors; Subject Index.