{"product_id":"searching-for-sarah-in-the-second-temple-era-9780567689122","title":"Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeeking to build upon recent scholarship based on Biblical women, Joseph  McDonald uses a character-centered literary approach to read the story  of Sarah as it was told and retold in the Second Temple period. McDonald  offers an alternative to the usual approaches to rewritten Bible  narratives, which often emphasize near-context, synoptic comparison of  retold stories and their scriptural precursors, arguing that examination of  retold narratives as narratives reveals important aspects of their  internal literary effects, that may otherwise go unnoticed.   Taken together, McDonald suggests that such readings reveal one of  Sarah's trans-narrative or deep traits, as a curious, multi-faceted  resemblance to the character of Abraham. The richness of her images, however, shows that this resemblance is not the ultimate  distillation of Sarah, but a symptom of the kind of restriction that she  consistently faces in this literature. McDonald concludes that creative  readings of the narrativ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM. provides a model for the investigation of the image of other biblical figures in later literature. * Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *\u003cbr\u003eA unique contribution to the study of Sarah in the literature of MT, LXX, Genesis Apocryphon, and Josephus’s Antiquities. * Review of Biblical Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Introduction 2. Sarah in the Masoretic Text 3. Sarra in the Septuagint 4. Sarai in the Genesis Apocryphon 5. Sarra in Josephus 6. Conclusions, Contributions, and Prospects Bibliography \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018298917207,"sku":"9780567689122","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780567689122.jpg?v=1750776348","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/searching-for-sarah-in-the-second-temple-era-9780567689122","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}