Narratology And Biblical Narratives

Author : Francois Tolmie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725232105

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Narratology and Biblical Narratives by Francois Tolmie Pdf

Scholars interested in narrative critical / narratological analyses of the Old Testament and New Testament Bible will welcome this extensive practical study that discusses all aspects that should be evaluated when a narratological analysis is undertaken. All the relevant aspects, such as the relationship between narrator and narratee, plot development, characterization, temporal relationships, focalization, and setting are discussed in such a way that it is easy to follow, yet of high academic quality. Each aspect is illustrated by several examples from the Old Testament and New Testament. At the end of each chapter is a bibliography directing readers to more technical books/articles on the subject.

Author : D. Francois Tolmie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:1153301675

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Narratology and Biblical Narratives by D. Francois Tolmie Pdf

Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780465025558

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The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter Pdf

From celebrated translator of the Hebrew Bible Robert Alter, the "groundbreaking" (Los Angeles Times) book that explores the Bible as literature, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In this seminal work, Alter describes how the Hebrew Bible's many authors used innovative literary styles and devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of all time: the revelation of a single God. In so doing, Alter shows, these writers reshaped not only history, but also the art of storytelling itself.

Author : Danna Nolan Fewell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199967728

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The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative by Danna Nolan 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 : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Meir Sternberg
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Susan Zeelander
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : John A Beck
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827212542

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God as Storyteller by John A Beck Pdf

The Bible is filled with carefully told stories that are designed to reach from their pages into our lives. They reach out to entertain us. They cause us to laugh or make us cry. But most importantly, the stories in the Bible shape our thinking and our faith. This book honors the role of God as storyteller and explores how God's inspired authors carefully select and present an event so as to instill it with meaning. In order to deepen our appreciation of the storyteller's craft, this book surveys the traditional categories of narrative criticism to see how the design of scene, plot, characterization, narration, time, and wordplay shape the story we read. But the reader will also find a considerable portion of this book devoted to a new form of narrative analysis-narrative geography. Since the stories of the Bible are filled not only with people but also with place, we note how the storyteller may strategically use, reuse, and nuance geography as part of the storytelling process. As we come to a fuller appreciation of how the events of the Bible become its stories, we will have set the stage for a discussion of the reader's craft, seeking meaning in such stories. In the end, the reader will be rewarded with a new and exciting way of reading God's stories that appreciates not only their composition but also their meaning.

Author : George J. Brooke,Jean-Daniel Kaestli
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Hans W. Frei
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Danna Fewell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Jan P. Fokkelman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004397484

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Reading Biblical Narrative by Jan P. Fokkelman Pdf

This is an enormously instructive and practical hands-on introduction for students of the Bible as literature, by one of the world’s leading exponents of Hebrew narrative technique. Issues covered include: introduction to the art of reading, the narrator and his characters, narrative structure, narrative devices.

Author : Huw Thomas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666713299

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In the Way of the Story by Huw Thomas Pdf

You'll be doing all the work. You'll be picking apart plots, analyzing characters, exploring the setting of biblical narratives, and engaging with narrative levels and reader response theory. And you'll be doing all the work. This is a book about you, the reader. Drawing on narrative theory, this book places readers in the way of the story, reading biblical narrative through fresh eyes. Using entertaining explanations of literary theory, it liberates readers to read their own chosen Bible stories with a fresh understanding of how narratives work. Practical activities will inspire the reader to develop their own understanding of stories and, in doing so, this book tackles hallowed and authoritarian interpretations that can sometimes get in the way of the story. This is a book of clear explanation and practical application.

Author : Shimon Bar-Efrat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567481917

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Narrative Art in the Bible by Shimon Bar-Efrat Pdf

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive review of the fundamental literary aspects of biblical narrative, investigating the characteristics and points of view of the narrator, the shaping of characters, the structure of the plot, time and space, and finally the style. Many examples are provided to clarify the issues discussed as well as to shed fresh light on the narratives.

Author : J. P. Fokkelman
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611644425

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Reading Biblical Narrative by J. P. Fokkelman Pdf

Narrator, characters, action, hero, quest, plot, time and space, entrances and exits--these are the essential components of all narrative literature. This authoritative and engaging introduction to the literary features of biblical narrative and poetry will help the reader grasp the full significance of these components, allowing them to enter more perceptively into the narrative worlds created by the great writers of the Bible.