The Lord of the dreams : a semantic and literary analysis of Genesis 37-50 / Ron Pirson.

A fascinating and highly original new look at the Joseph-narrative which relies a good deal on syntactic and semantic analyses. Pirson shows that there are many elements in this story that provoke a significantly different reading of the story of Joseph and his brothers, especially when these are co...

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Main Author: Pirson, Ron
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, ©2002.
Series:Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 355.
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505 0 |a Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 MEANING IN CONTEXT; 1. Introduction; 2. Meaning and Interpretation; 3. Context; 4. Biblical Hebrew; 5. Lexicon and Meaning; 6. Context and Encyclopaedia; 7. Connotations and Alluvial Meaning; Chapter 2 ALL IN THE FAMILY; 1. Jacob'' s Offspring; 2. Father and Sons; Chapter 3 A TALE OF TWO DREAMS; 1. The Dreams Prior to Joseph''s; 2. The Dreams of Joseph; 3. The First Dream: We Were Binding Sheaves in the Field; 4. The Second Dream: The Sun, the Moon and 11 Stars; 5. Four More Dreams; 6. Numbers in Dreams; Chapter 4 AN UNEXPECTED PARTY. 
505 8 |a 1. Reuben and Judah2. The Sale of Joseph; 3. Who Sells to Whom?; 4. Reuben and his Brothers; Chapter 5 DESCENTS INTO THE UNKNOWN; 1. Judah and Tamar; 2. Joseph in Egypt; 3. The Interpretations of the Dreams; 4. Manasseh and Ephraim; Chapter 6 ACCUSATIONS AND REVELATIONS; 1. ''Your Servants are 12 Brothers, Sons of One Man''; 2. Judah''s Plea and the House of Jacob; 3. The Brothers and Joseph; 4. What About Joseph?; 5. Israel to Egypt; Chapter 7 MANY FAREWELLS; 1. Jacob, Joseph, and Manasseh and Ephraim; 2. Jacob''s Farewell Speech; 3. Final Conversations; 4. The Departure of Joseph; Epilogue. 
520 |a A fascinating and highly original new look at the Joseph-narrative which relies a good deal on syntactic and semantic analyses. Pirson shows that there are many elements in this story that provoke a significantly different reading of the story of Joseph and his brothers, especially when these are combined with some textual aspects previously unnoticed or neglected. Special attention is given to the meaning of Joseph''s dreams, to the question of who actually sold Joseph, and to the brothers'' role in the narrative. Pirson also asks why Joseph did not call home after his release from prison, an. 
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