Women have two ways of dismounting תִּצְנַ֖ח and תִּפֹּל. The first is what Achsa does from her ass תִּצְנַ֖ח מֵעַ֣ל הַחֲמ֑וֹר The second is what Rivqah does from her camel when she first catches sight of Yitschaq וַתִּפֹּל מֵעַל הַגָּמָל׃. Achsa leaps into action like a paratrooper. Rivqah falls in love.
Every now and then there is, among the other threads and vectors, the echo of a reprise, a kind of textal allusiveness, or "intert-textual," that adds yet another color to the skein. As here where Achsa's dismount surely echoes that of Rebecca, who falls for Isaac, the same who was a well-redigger par excellence, the "water boy" of the patriarchs. And already in Genesis water rites are an issue...
Women have two ways of dismounting תִּצְנַ֖ח and תִּפֹּל. The first is what Achsa does from her ass תִּצְנַ֖ח מֵעַ֣ל הַחֲמ֑וֹר The second is what Rivqah does from her camel when she first catches sight of Yitschaq וַתִּפֹּל מֵעַל הַגָּמָל׃. Achsa leaps into action like a paratrooper. Rivqah falls in love.
Every now and then there is, among the other threads and vectors, the echo of a reprise, a kind of textal allusiveness, or "intert-textual," that adds yet another color to the skein. As here where Achsa's dismount surely echoes that of Rebecca, who falls for Isaac, the same who was a well-redigger par excellence, the "water boy" of the patriarchs. And already in Genesis water rites are an issue...