Literary questions of Gen 12:10-20
Completion requirements
Opened: Saturday, 19 June 2021, 12:00 AM
Due: Saturday, 26 June 2021, 12:00 AM
Read the following article:
Peleg, Yitzhak (Itzik). “Was the Ancestress of Israel in Danger? Did Pharaoh Touch (נגע) Sarai?” ZAW 118.2 (2006): 197–208.
- How does Peleg explain the strategy of the narrator in Gen 12:10-20 in depicting the fate of Sarai after she was taken by Pharaoh?
- What are some important expressions in the story, and how are they used to implicitly comment on the relationship between Sarai, Pharaoh, and Abram?
- What is the relevance of the Plague narrative in Exodus for the interpretation of Gen 12:10-20?
- 27 February 2023, 10:26 AM