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Since Julius Wellhausen's synthesis of the Documentary Hypothesis—and no doubt owing in part to the Protestant Reformation—dominant portrayals of the Priestly material have described a self-interested legist with little or no concern for those outside the Levitical ranks. Though…

In nineteenth-century America, the Biblical figure of Hagar appears frequently, in both art and literature. In literature, Hagar serves as the main character in many sentimental or domestic novels written by and/or about women of the South during the mid-nineteenth-century, wher…

In this dissertation I offer a feminist commentary on the Hagar stories and of the stories of Yahweh, Sarah, and Abraham, which entwine and largely determine hers. I consider the influence these stories and their reception have had on Western culture and demonstrate that readers…