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- Title
A Narrative Analysis of Pre-Sinaitic Well Scenes.
- Authors
McIntyre, Donald C.
- Abstract
There is a definite narrative progression in the well scenes of the Pentateuch, showing a cataphoric function to identify a deliverer for the progeny of Abraham. This impacts the Abrahamic promise, as is witnessed by an examination of the literary context and a description of narrative methodology and a plot-line analysis of major well scenes in Genesis and Exodus (Gen 16, 21, 24, 29, and Exod 2). A comparison of these scenes show the progression leading to Moses as the deliverer par excellence of Abraham's elect-progeny and effector of the deliverance of Israel from Egypt in fulfilment of Genesis 15:13-14. Previous analyses of the patriarchal well scenes which concluded that "seed line" or "betrothal" considerations were the primary motivation for these scenes' inclusion in the canon are unable to account for the entirety of the data in a way that this thesis is better able to defend.
- Subjects
BIBLE. Genesis; ABRAHAM (Biblical patriarch); BIBLE. Exodus; MOSES (Biblical leader); BETROTHAL; EXODUS, The; NARRATIVES; MOTIVATION (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Ministry & Theology, 2021, Vol 25, Issue 2, p3
- ISSN
1092-9525
- Publication type
Article