How Long to Read Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative

How Long Does it Take to Read Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative by Jonathan A. Kruschwitz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The stories of Hagar, Dinah, and Tamar stand out as strangers in the ancestral narrative. They deviate from the main plot and draw attention to the interests and fates of characters who are not a part of the ancestral family. Readers have traditionally domesticated these strange stories. They have made them "familiar"--all about the ancestral family. Thus Hagar's story becomes a drama of deselection, Shechem and the Hivites become emblematic for ancestral conflict with the people of the land, and Tamar becomes a lens by which to read providence in the story of Joseph. This study resurrects the question of these stories' strangeness. Rather than allow the ancestral narrative to determine their significance, it attends to each interlude's particularity and detects ironic gestures made toward the ancestral narrative. These stories contain within them the potential to defamiliarize key themes of ancestral identity: the ancestral-divine relationship, ancestral relations to the land and its inhabitants, and ancestral self-identity. Perhaps the ancestral family are not the only privileged partners of God, the only heirs to the land, or the only bloodline fit to bear the next generation.

How long is Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative?

Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative by Jonathan A. Kruschwitz is 247 pages long, and a total of 63,479 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative aloud.

What Reading Level is Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative?

Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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