МОДЕЛИРУЮЩЕЕ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЕ ОДНОГО ИСТРЕБИТЕЛЬНОГО СЮЖЕТА ИЗ ТАНАХА (ИЗЭВЕЛЬ)
THE MODELLING APPROACH OF THE ELIMINATION MOTIF IN THE BOOK OF TANAKH (JEZEBEL)

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of the analysis is a well-known motif from The Bible which makes Jezebel eliminate the God’s prophets and then she has Naboth stoned after an intrigue and false denunciations which make it easy for Ahab to inherit the longed-for vineyard. Jezebel is the wife of Ahab, the 7th ruler of The Northern Kingdom of Israel. She is a worshipper of Baal and Astarte (Asherah). As the result this causes the extermination of Jezebel just as Elijah the Prophet predicted. The data from the source materials make it possible to distinguish and describe three models being in close relations with each other: an oriented action (I’ll do to you / with yours what you did to me / with mine), acquiring by a swap (the killing of Naboth’s motif), the foretold annihilation (the murder of Jezebel and throwing her through the window). The shared element is doing evil which results in the inevitable effect of total elimination of the wrong-doer. The distinguished models are accompanied by the roles of the participants and their characteristics, the description of the semantic features and the predicative- componential schemes. The author draws conclusions of the possibilities of a similar approach to the motifs present in traditional texts.

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