Victim and Victimizer: Joseph's Interpretation of his DestinyA&C Black, 2000 M06 1 - 224 páginas This book attempts an interesting exercise in character analysis. It scrutinizes the speeches of Joseph in such a way as to expose the problematic nature of his claims to know God's intentions. While Judah is forced by Joseph's test to choose slavery for the sake of his father's survival, the ironic reversal of Judah's role from victimizer to victim is undercut by the rationale by which he had Joseph sold in order to save him. Unwittingly, Joseph mistakes this rationale as a divine principle that undergirds his suffering and he dreams of domination for the same purpose of survival. He is unaware of Judah's real predicament and this double blindness calls into doubt the coalescence of perspectives of Joseph and the narrator. |
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Chapter 2 A CHALLENGE TO JOSEPHS CLAIM OF DIVINE DOMINATION | 56 |
Chapter 3 IS JOSEPH THE NARRATORS MOUTHPIECE? | 101 |
Chapter 4 READERS RESPONSES TO JOSEPHS CLAIMS | 128 |
Chapter 5 FAVOURITISM FUNCTIONS AS BOTH CURSE AND CURE | 171 |
CONCLUSION | 198 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index of References | 216 |
Index of Authors | 220 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Victim and Victimizer: Joseph's Interpretation of his Destiny Yiu-Wing Fung Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Victim and Victimizer: Joseph's Interpretation of his Destiny Yiu-Wing Fung Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Victim and Victimizer: Joseph's Interpretation of his Destiny Yiu-Wing Fung Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
accept Ackerman Alter Announcements of Plot Art of Biblical asserts Assimilation versus Separation attempt Benjamin Biblical Narrative Bilhah Book of Genesis brothers Brueggemann Canaan to Egypt characters claim of divine contrast Creation and Blessing crime critical death and slavery death or slavery disclosure speech divine domination divine favouritism divine plan divine providence dreams of domination Egyptians ExpTim famine father forget Fretheim fulfilment God's intentions God's plan Holbert Humphreys idea of subservience Ishmaelites Israelite Joseph Narrative Joseph story Joseph's action Joseph's claim Joseph's dreams Joseph's interpretation Joseph's speech Joseph's test Joseph's words Josipovici Judah Judah's pit Judah's speech justify mass enslavement Midianite narrator narrator's Paradox and Symmetry patriarchal Pharaoh Pharaoh's dreams pit of slavery Plot in Genesis Poetics of Biblical Potiphar's readers Redford Reuben reveals rise to power Robert Alter role selling Seybold Shechem Sheol slave sons Sternberg subservience for survival suggests tion Turner victim Wenham Westermann Wildavsky