Author : Daniel Hankore
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610979915
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Book Synopsis The Abduction of Dinah by : Daniel Hankore
Download or read book The Abduction of Dinah written by Daniel Hankore and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.