'Why Ask My Name?'

• Preface Part I: Anonymity and the Effacement of Personal Identity 1: The Bit Players 2: Servants, Stewards, and Armour-bearers 3: Transmitters of Information Part II: Anonymity and the Expression of Personal Identity 4: Wise Women and the Unworthy Levites 5: Wayward Wives and Multifarious Mothers 6: Doomed Daughters Part III: Anonymity and the Boundaries of Personal Identity 7: The Convergence of Characters 8: Character Confusion in the Heavenly Realm 9: Crossing the Frontier Between Reader and Text

This is in many ways a fascinating book. By the end of it I felt that I had been invited into a deep level of engagement with the OT text, as my attention was drawn to anonymous characters whom I might otherwise have noticed but not lingered on. It is a book primarily for scholars, but it is non-technical and therefore accessible to anyone with an interest in literary approaches to the Bible and in particular the issue of the construction of character in narrative.