Jael:
Intertextuality allows to see the Goddess ‘Anat winning the battle of Yahweh in Jdg 4-5
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2236-9937.2022v26p289-306Keywords:
Jael, Goddess, Bakhtin, Judges, IntertextualityAbstract
After a brief analysis regarding the figure of Deborah, with this article we propose a characterization of the figure Jael in the two texts (prose and verse) of Judges 4 and 5, as well as the possible intertextual relations of her figure with specific images and contexts of the time that go back to the memories of these texts, since they are formed by varied multilayers. Despite being a polyphonic narrative in terms of modern narrative analysis theories, we do not fail to consider the memories embedded in the texts analyzed, and which constitute a fundamental role in the resistance of marginalized groups in the context of their writing. To this end, we use Bakhtin's theory of Heteroglossia and also his ideas about the presence of plurality of voices in a narrative, we also use research around Canaanite mythology and the analysis of contextual imagery around specific terms used in these texts. All this we propose in order to construct the image of the character Jael in the most explicit way possible, challenging new research and deepening regarding this imagery for the deconstruction of the silencing process of voices that groups suffered through the production of these texts.
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