&quote;Why Ask My Name?&quote;

Unnamed characters--such as Lot''s wife, Jephthah''s daughter, Pharaoh''s baker, and the witch of Endor--are ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible and appear in a wide variety of roles. Adele Reinhartz here seeks to answer two principal questions: first, is there a "poetics of anonymity," and if so, what are its contours? Second, how does anonymity affect the readers'' response to and construction of unn...