Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2011) 19 pp.
Keywords:
Gideon
;
Moses
;
Saul,
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Bible Criticism, Narrative
;
Bible as literature
Abstract:
Comparison of the Gideon (Judg 6:11–24) and Moses (Exod 3:1–15) call narratives raises the question of whether they are different manifestations of the same literary convention—a biblical “type-scene” of appointment and investiture—or display literary dependence. I suggest that their affinity goes beyond the shared features of the call-narrative convention and argue that the author of the Gideon narrative deliberately created direct literary links between the protagonist’s investiture and that of Moses—the archetypical biblical leader—as a means of elevating Gideon’s stature.
Note:
Appeared also in the journal's print version "Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures" 8 (2013) 299-316.
DOI:
10.5508/jhs.2011.v11.a11
URL:
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