Abstract
This article focuses on the strange story that functions as narrative origin in the Book of Chronicles: the murder of Saul and his sons (1 Chron. 10). In Chronicles, the logic of the production of meaning depends on the logic of patrilineal succession for its consistency. Upon close analysis of 1 Chronicles 10, it emerges that this narrative logic depends on the silencing of the maternal body. The murder of Saul and his sons is read symptomatically as a narrative of the originary repression of the maternal body, a repression necessary to sustain the phantasy of monosexual production that underwrites this masculinist history.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford handbook of biblical narrative |
Editors | D.N. Fewell |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 286-295 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780199967728 |
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Publication status | Published - 2016 |