The Abduction of Dinah

By Daniel Hankore

Daniel Hankore argues that the story of Genesis 28:10--35:15 has been misunderstood and mistranslated for two thousand years. He seeks to shed new light on it from Ethiopia's Hadiyya culture, revealing Genesis 28:10--35:15 to be a votive narrative. Making use of relevance theory Hankore tries to reconstruct the intended message of the story from the narrator's point of view. Genesis 28:10--35:15 is presented as a coherent narrative unit and each episode of the story, including the Dinah story, is a part of the building blocks of the discourse structure of this coherent votive narrative. Hankore shows that a correct understanding of the Hebrew concept נדר (vow) in the context of the ancient Israelite's social institution is fundamental for the reading and translating of Genesis 28:10--35:15.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610979915
• ISBN13: 9781610979917
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"