The Abduction of Dinah (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781610979917)

Daniel Hankore argues that the story of Genesis 28:10--35:15 has been misunderstood and mistranslated for two thousand years. He seeks to shed new light on it from Ethiopia's Hadiyya culture, revealing Genesis 28:10--35:15 to be a votive narrative. Making use of relevance theory Hankore tries to reconstruct the intended message of the story from the narrator's point of view. Genesis 28:10--35:15 is presented as a coherent narrative unit and each episode of the story, including the Dinah story, is a part of the building blocks of the discourse structure of this coherent votive narrative. Hankore shows that a correct understanding of the Hebrew concept נדר (vow) in the context of the ancient Israelite's social institution is fundamental for the reading and translating of Genesis 28:10--35:15.

Author: Daniel Hankore
ISBN-10: 1610979915
ISBN-13: 9781610979917
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2013
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d