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The four narrative blocks which comprise Genesis are prefaced by statements (“Announcements”) which suggest ways in which the ensuing stories are likely to develop. The author concludes that the announcements influence their narratives in many different ways and that they are misleading indicators of how plots will develop. Genesis is more concerned to present the ironies of human motive and...

that the nation promise will be fulfilled through his nephew.1 The narrative of his sojourn there (12:10–20) has been the object of much scholarly interest. Most of the attention paid to the pericope has been taken up with comparing and contrasting it with ‘parallel’ wife-sister stories in chs. 20 and 26, the usual assumption being that ‘these three passages are three different portrayals of the same narrative’.2 If one limits one’s interests to uncovering a hypothetical evolution of a narrative
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