Transmatriation? Avishag the Shunammite in Three Contemporary Israeli Novels.
While numerous postbiblical authors consider the major figures in the Davidic dynasty, others have turned their attention to the more peripheral characters in the David cycle. The three Israeli novels discussed in this article--Yael Lotan's Avishag (2002), Avraham Burg's Avishag (2011), and Eva Etzi...
| Publicado en: | Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 77 - 103 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=165053766&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 165053766 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 08828539 6A0 jtl: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies issn: 08828539 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Spring2023 vid: 41 iid: 1 pid: 19334 pub: Purdue University Press artinfo: ui: 165053766 10.1353/sho.2023.a903282 ppf: 77 ppct: 26 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.5MB tig: atl: Transmatriation? Avishag the Shunammite in Three Contemporary Israeli Novels. aug: au: Koplowitz-Breier, Anat affil: Senior lecturer at the Comparative Literature Department at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel su: Bible David, King of Israel, ca. 1040-970 B.C. Romance fiction Spies Biblical figures Political fiction English language 21st century (Literary period) sug: subj: Bible David, King of Israel, ca. 1040-970 B.C. Romance fiction Spies Biblical figures Political fiction English language 21st century (Literary period) keyword: Avishag the Shunammite biblical retelling contemporary Israeli novels political novels romance novels transculturalism ab: While numerous postbiblical authors consider the major figures in the Davidic dynasty, others have turned their attention to the more peripheral characters in the David cycle. The three Israeli novels discussed in this article--Yael Lotan's Avishag (2002), Avraham Burg's Avishag (2011), and Eva Etzioni-Halevy's But the King Did Not Know Her (2014)--focus on Avishag the Shunammite. Although all draw on the same biblical text, each develops it in a particular direction. Lotan's Avishag embodies both political and feminist features, developing from a young maiden into a royal secret agent. Burg's reading is a political one: he remains loyal to the patriarchal point of view by choosing a male narrator; hence his Avishag is still a relatively minor character. Etzioni-Halevy's novel falls into the category of feminist historical/biblical romance. Her protagonist, Avishag, positioned as a romance heroine, develops from a passive maiden into a mature woman who seeks to determine her own fate. Moreover, since Avishag's character in the biblical narrative is mentioned in the middle of the inheritance struggle between David's sons Adonijah and Solomon, each of the novelists uses it as a springboard for rereading the Davidian story through a different prism. By choosing different narrators, different languages (English, pseudo-biblical Hebrew, and contemporary Hebrew), and slightly different genres, each of the authors adapts the biblical story to enhance a different reading of the Bible, making the ancient story accessible and fresh to contemporary readers as an "old vessel filled with new wine." pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies is the property of Purdue University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies holder: Purdue University Press dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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