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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2020
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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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