'The Silence of the Lambs' in the book of Genesis: Fragments of narrative analysis of Gen 12:1020 and Gen 20:118
2008
Abstract
This article presents a narrative analysis of two episodes of ?ancestress in danger,? namely Gen 12:1020, and Gen 20:118. The conspicuous narrative feature common to both stories is the silence and passivity of Sarai/Sarah.
It is argued that her silence functions as a narrative means of ethical and theological evaluation not so much of the ancestress herself, but mainly of other characters in these stories.