Studies In Biblical Narrative

Author : Danna Nolan Fewell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Robert Alter
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : J. Andrew Dearman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780190246488

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Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives by J. Andrew Dearman Pdf

Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives introduces readers to narrative traditions of the Old Testament and to methods of interpreting them. Part of the Essentials of Biblical Studies series, this volume presents readers with an overview of exegesis by mainly focusing on a self-contained narrative tobe read alongside the text. Through sustained interaction with the book of Ruth, readers have opportunities to engage a biblical book from multiple perspectives, while taking note of the wider implications of such perspectives for other biblical narratives. Other select texts from Hebrew Biblenarratives, related by theme or content to matters in Ruth, are also examined, not only to assist in illustrating this method of approach, but also to offer reinforcement of reading skills and connections among different narrative traditions. Considering literary analysis, words and texts incontext, and reception history, this brief introduction gives students an overview of how exegesis illuminates stories in the Bible.

Author : Amelia Devin Freedman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0820478288

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God as an Absent Character in Biblical Hebrew Narrative by Amelia Devin Freedman Pdf

Although the Hebrew Bible as a whole is centered on God and God's relations with Israel, the character of God appears in most biblical stories only indirectly. How are modern readers to make sense of this paradox? God as an Absent Character in Biblical Hebrew Narrative establishes a set of literary methods that both academic and non-academic readers can use to understand the character of God, who is the single most important character in Hebrew Bible narrative and, strangely, absent from the majority of it.

Author : Meir Sternberg
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Robert S. Kawashima
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253003202

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Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode by Robert S. Kawashima Pdf

Informed by literary theory and Homeric scholarship as well as biblical studies, Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode sheds new light on the Hebrew Bible and, more generally, on the possibilities of narrative form. Robert S. Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic in order to account for the "novelty" of biblical prose narrative. Long before Herodotus or Homer, Israelite writers practiced an innovative narrative art, which anticipated the modern novelist's craft. Though their work is undeniably linked to the linguistic tradition of the Ugaritic narrative poems, there are substantive differences between the bodies of work. Kawashima views biblical narrative as the result of a specifically written verbal art that we should counterpose to the oral-traditional art of epic. Beyond this strictly historical thesis, the study has theoretical implications for the study of narrative, literature, and oral tradition. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature -- Herbert Marks, General Editor

Author : Sungmin Min Chun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0191768073

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Ethics and Biblical Narrative by Sungmin Min Chun Pdf

S. Min Chun discusses how to read Old Testament narrative from an ethical perspective. He employs a linguistic and literary approach to Biblical interpretation, using close study of the narrative of Josiah in the book of Kings, and argues that such an approach makes the most of the genre-characteristics of Old Testament narrative.

Author : George J. Brooke,Jean-Daniel Kaestli
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Yitsḥaḳ Avishur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015043405201

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Studies in Biblical Narrative by Yitsḥaḳ Avishur Pdf

Author : Yaira Amit
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451420447

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Reading Biblical Narratives by Yaira Amit Pdf

Based on a series of lectures given in Israel, Amit introduces the reader to the subtle ways of the biblical narrators. Covering issues of character, plot development, catchword association, narration, and dialog, she brings the biblical text to life, helping the reader enter the stories from new vantage points.

Author : Francois Tolmie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620324790

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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 : Robert C. Culley
Publisher : Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015033102917

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Themes and Variations by Robert C. Culley Pdf

Author : Jason Philip Rosenblatt,Joseph C. Sitterson (Jr.)
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Alice Bach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521475600

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Women, Seduction, and Betrayal in Biblical Narrative by Alice Bach Pdf

This accessible, readable book looks at the cultural study of the Bible, challenging the traditional mode of reading the women in the Bible. Alice Bach applies literary theory, cultural representations of biblical figures, films, and paintings to a close reading of a group of biblical texts revolving around the 'wicked' literary figures in the Bible. She compares the biblical character of the wife of Potiphar with the Second Temple Period narratives and rabbinic midrashim that expand her story. She then reads Bathsheba against a Yiddish novel by David Pinski, and finally looks at the Biblical Salome against a very different Salome created by Oscar Wilde, and the selection of Salomes created by Hollywood. Bach argues that biblical characters have a life in the mind of the reader independent of the stories in which they were created, thus making the reader the site at which the texts and the cultures that produced them come together.

Author : Hans W. Frei
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,5 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.