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The birth report genre in the Hebrew Bible
This book is a revision of my doctoral dissertation at Claremont Graduate
University, Claremont, 2005. The subject arose out of a weekly informal meeting,
conducted by Tammi Schneider, in which Hebrew Bible students would read and
discuss Genesis. When we came to Gen 21:1-3, we puzzled over the expressions
narrating that YHWH "visited" Sarah, that Sarah conceived and bore a son in his
old age, and especially the tortuous expression, "And Abraham called the name of
his son, the one born to him,
the one which Sarah bore to him, 'Isaac'" (Gen 21:3).
I volunteered to examine what the standard formulae for these expressions were,
and when I reported my initial findings the next week, it was agreed I had a
dissertation topic.
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