What? No name?

The preceding considerations show that the way in which the biblical narrator reiers to a given character as speaking or acting subject is not determined solely by accessibility or social status. A factor that is no less important is the position the narrator allocates to this character. The participant who is successful in his undertaking or prevails in the spoken interaction is marked by name and/or title, whereas reference to the character who complies or remains submissive or passive is limited to the verbal form only. In other words, the stylistic shaping of reference is germane to positioning. Positioning by reference, then, is a significant component of the interface between literary theory and the linguistic study of discourse and pragmatics.—Frank Polak, "Participant Tracking, Positioning, and the Pragmatics of Biblical Narrative," in Advances in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics, ed. Adina Moshavi and Tania Notarius, LSAWS 12 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2017), 168–169

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Interesting observation. He comes to this conclusion after a study of the book of Ruth.
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