What is in a Name?: Rahab, the Canaanite, and the Rhetoric of Liberation in the Hebrew Bible

As many native women in conquest accounts (historical and fictional), Rahab in Joshua 2 is often "hypersexualised" in biblical scholarship. One narrative detail gratuitously read in sexual terms is her name, Rahab, which is linked to the idea of "broadness." Traditionally, "...

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Main Author: Kozlova, Ekaterina E. 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2020
In: Open theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 572-586
Further subjects:B Conquest
B Promised Land
B Rahab
B Torah
B midrashic derivations of names
B Joshua
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