Narrativity In Biblical And Related Texts

Author : George J. Brooke,Jean-Daniel Kaestli
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042908777

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Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts by George J. Brooke,Jean-Daniel Kaestli Pdf

Seventeen innovative studies are collected in this volume which has been produced under the aegis of the Centre for Biblical Studies, University of Manchester, and L'Institut des sciences bibliques, Universite de Lausanne. The majority of the studies engage with narrative through providing insightful working examples. Building on the many contributions of recent narratological research, for the most part the studies in this collection avoid the technical language of narratology as they present fresh insights at many levels. Some essays focus more on the implied author, some on the implied reader or hearer, and some on the way particular messages are constructed; some of the studies consider how author, message and reader are all interconnected. There are several creative proposals for refining genre definition, from law and wisdom to gospel and apocryphal writings. Some studies highlight the way in which narratives can contain ethical, religious, and cultural messages. Sensitivity to narrative is also shown by some contributors to expose in intruing ways the redactional processes behind the final form of texts. Students of narrative in the ancient world will find much to consider in this book, and others engaged with literary studies more generally will discover that scholars of the worlds of the Bible and Late Antiquity have much to offer them.

Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0465022553

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The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter Pdf

Since it was first published nearly three decades ago, The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter presents the Hebrew Bible as a cohesive literary work, one whose many authors used innovative devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of human history: the revelation of a single god.

Author : George J. Brooke,Jean-Daniel Kaestli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Apocryphal books (New Testament)
ISBN : UVA:X006112820

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Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts by George J. Brooke,Jean-Daniel Kaestli Pdf

Author : Wesley A. Kort
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015012896992

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Story, Text, and Scripture by Wesley A. Kort Pdf

The author examines the case for revising the conception of biblical scripture in light of the new advances in narrative theory and the theory of textuality. The author's argument is fashioned with tact and understanding, and displays his firm command of a broad literature of critical theory and biblical research. The book summarizes and extends what has come to be called "the literary study of the Bible." This book is basically a study of four dominant literary methods which have been applied to biblical narratives by their practitioners. Each method is demonstrated through an analysis of a particular biblical narrative. This is the only study that treats the variety of recent literary analyses of biblical narrative, and it accounts for the variety by relating the various approaches to the elements of narrative, arguing that each approach is predetermined to favor one of the elements above the others. It argues that each literary approach, when applied to the narrative element most appropriate to it, reveals the vulnerability of the narrative form to religious meaning.

Author : Meir Sternberg
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253114044

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The Poetics of Biblical Narrative by Meir Sternberg Pdf

Meir Sternberg’s classic study is “an important book for those who seek to take the Bible seriously as a literary work.” (Adele Berlin, Prooftexts) In “a book to read and then reread” (Modern Language Review), Meir Sternberg “has accomplished an enormous task, enriching our understanding of the theoretical basis of Biblical narrative and giving us insight into a remarkable number of particular texts.” (Journal of the American Academy of Religion). The result is a “a brilliant work” (Choice) distinguished “both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which he understands and interprets the strategies of the biblical narratives.” (Theological Studies). The Poetics of Biblical Narrative shows, in Adele Berlin’s words, “more clearly and emphatically than any book I know, that the Bible is a serious literary work―a text manifesting a highly sophisticated and successful narrative poetics.”

Author : Hans W. Frei
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300026021

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The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative by Hans W. Frei Pdf

Laced with brilliant insights, broad in its view of the interaction of culture and theology, this book gives new resonance to old and important questions about the meaning of the Bible.

Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 1575060027

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Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative by Adele Berlin Pdf

Poetics, the "science" of literature, makes us aware of how texts achieve their meaning. Poetics aids interpretation. If we know how texts mean, we are in a better position to discover what a particular text means. This is a book which offers fundamental guidelines for the sensitive reading and understanding of biblical stories. - Back cover.

Author : David M. Gunn,Danna Nolan Fewell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015029871509

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Narrative in the Hebrew Bible by David M. Gunn,Danna Nolan Fewell Pdf

After almost two centuries of historical criticism, biblical scholarship has recently taken major shifts in direction, most notably toward literary study of the Bible. Much germinal criticism has taken as its primary focus narrative texts of the Hebrew Bible (the "Old Testament"). This study provides a lucid guide to the interpretive possibilities of this movement. Attempting to be both theoretical and practical, it combines discussion of methods and the business of reading in general with numerous illustrations through readings of particular texts. Gunn and Fewell discuss how literary criticism is related to other dominant ways of reading the text over the last two thousand years. In addition, they address characters, including the narrator and God; plot, modifying recent theory to accommodate the peculiar complexity of biblical narratives; and the play of language through repetition, ambiguity, multivalence, metaphor, and intertextuality. Finally, the authors discuss readers and responsibility, exploring the ideological dimension of narrative interpretation. An extensive bibliography completes the book, arranged by subject and biblical text.

Author : Jason Philip Rosenblatt,Joseph C. Sitterson (Jr.)
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253206782

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Not in Heaven by Jason Philip Rosenblatt,Joseph C. Sitterson (Jr.) Pdf

Growing out of a conference entitled Literary Theory volume reveal, among other more particularistic points, a fundamental overt disagreement regarding the question of coherence in narrative point of view, i.e. between the assumption or discovery of coherent and unitary narratives and narrators, the critique of this assumption, and the assumption or discovery of its opposite. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Danna Fewell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199967735

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The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative by Danna Fewell Pdf

Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions. The Handbook covers the Bible's narrative literature, from Genesis to Revelation, providing concise overviews of literary-critical scholarship as well as innovative readings of individual narratives informed by a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The volume as a whole combines literary sensitivities with the traditional historical and sociological questions of biblical criticism and puts biblical studies into intentional conversation with other disciplines in the humanities. It reframes biblical literature in a way that highlights its aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to various forms of social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities.

Author : Gerhard Sauter,John Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351731577

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Revelations and Story by Gerhard Sauter,John Barton Pdf

This title was first published in 2000. From the work of Hegel and Schelling to the dialectical theology of Barth, Bultmann and Gogarten, "Revelation" has developed a long, rich tradition of diverse thought, as well as many misunderstandings. Meaning, first and foremost, "God's encounter with those to whom God wishes to communicate God's own self", Revelation seeks to be recounted and communicated to others. As a theological expression, Revelation aims to direct our attention to the modes and areas in which we have a basis for expecting encounter with God - through stories, nature, the world as creation. From a rediscovered emphasis on "story", narrative theology has emerged - a concept the English-speaking world has welcomed for its neutrality between history and imaginative fiction and stress on narrative rather than doctrinal dimension of biblical text. This volume brings into relationship a concern with theology of revelation and an interest in the theology of story or narrative theology.

Author : Susan Zeelander
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004218222

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Closure in Biblical Narrative by Susan Zeelander Pdf

Multiple and sometimes unexpected forms of closure in biblical narratives bring their stories to satisfactory close. Knowledge of these conventions and how they affect their stories is valuable to students of Bible and of narrative.

Author : Karl Möller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826465689

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A Prophet in Debate by Karl Möller Pdf

An investigation of the literary structure and rhetorical challenge that prompted the book's production. Moller argues that the book of Amos captures and presents the debate between Amos and his eighth-century audience. When read in the light of Israel's fall, the presentation of Amos struggling (and failing) to convince his contemporaries of the imminent divine punishment functions as a powerful warning to subsequent Judaean readers.

Author : Steven Weitzman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253114209

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Song and Story in Biblical Narrative by Steven Weitzman Pdf

"... a book which asks and answers a new, interesting question, using a rich range of biblical and humanistic methodologies." -- Journal of Biblical Literature This book examines a literary form within the Bible that has slipped through the cracks of modern scholarship: the mixing of song and story in biblical narrative. Journeying from ancient Egyptian battle accounts to Aramaic wisdom texts to early retellings of biblical tales in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, and rabbinic midrash, Steven Weitzman follows the history of this form from its origins as a congeries of different literary behaviors to its emergence as a self-conscious literary convention.

Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300134957

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Thinking in Circles by Mary Douglas Pdf

Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, superbly translated and accompanied by stimulating essays. Pauline Kleingeld provides a lucid introduction to the main themes of the volume, and three essays by distinguished contributors follow: Jeremy Waldron on Kant's theory of the state; Michael W. Doyle on the implications of Kant's political theory for his theory of international relations; and Allen W. Wood on Kant's philosophical approach to history and its current relevance.