John T Noble: 1 book
A Place for Hagar's Son
Ishmael as a Case Study in the Priestly Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The profound ambivalence of the biblical portrayals of Hagar and Ishmael—dispossessed, yet protected; abandoned, yet given promises that rival those of the covenant with Abraham—belies easy characterizations of the Pentateuch’s writers. In particular, John T. Noble argues, conventional characterizations...
