{"product_id":"searching-for-sarah-in-the-second-temple-era","title":"Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeeking to build upon recent scholarship based on Biblical women, Joseph  McDonald uses a character-centered literary approach to read the story  of Sarah as it was told and retold in the Second Temple period. McDonald  offers an alternative to the usual approaches to “rewritten Bible”  narratives, which often emphasize near-context, synoptic comparison of  retold stories and their scriptural precursors, arguing that examination of  retold narratives as narratives reveals important aspects of their  internal literary effects, that may otherwise go unnoticed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaken together, McDonald suggests that such readings reveal one of  Sarah’s trans-narrative or “deep traits,” as a curious, multi-faceted  resemblance to the character of Abraham. The richness of her images, however, shows that this resemblance is not the ultimate  distillation of Sarah, but a symptom of the kind of restriction that she  consistently faces in this literature. McDonald concludes that creative  readings of the narratives featuring Sarah in the Hebrew Bible, the  Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Jewish Antiquities of  Josephus illuminate Sarah as a complex and sometimes contradictory  figure, whose individuality and agency often struggle to escape  limitations placed upon her – both by other characters, such as Abraham  and God, and by the narrators of her tales.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221827735896,"sku":"9780567689122","price":122.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780567689122_73fd511f-cc6b-467c-8034-87b4f096be0f.jpg?v=1780385452","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/searching-for-sarah-in-the-second-temple-era","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}