The Sense Of Biblical Narrative Ii

Author : David Jobling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567426802

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The Sense of Biblical Narrative II by David Jobling Pdf

These three studies continue the methods and aims of Volume I (1978, 2nd edn 1986), applying a structuralist method developed mainly from Claude LTvi-Strauss and A.J. Greimas to various texts and problems in the narrative sections of the Hebrew Bible. The new studies go beyond those of the previous volume, however, in two ways. They begin to take account of the deconstructive method of Derrida, the 'standing on its head' of structuralism; and they seek to make a contribution to feminist and liberation exegesis and hermeneutics. The first study is a deconstruction of Genesis 2-3, showing that the oppositions which the text purports to establish (including divine vs. human and male vs. female) are in fact assumed in advance. The second deals with the implicit political theory of the Deuteronomists, and discovers an 'indeterminate' attitude to monarchy. The third, inspired by Norman K. Gottwald and seeking, from a great methodological distance, to illuminate his problematic of Israel's origins, analyses the attitude implied by the Bible towards Transjordan and the Israelites who live there.

Author : David Jobling
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781850750468

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The Sense of Biblical Narrative by David Jobling Pdf

Author : David Jobling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0905774124

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The sense of biblical narrative by David Jobling Pdf

Author : David Jobling
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567614810

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Sense of Biblical Narrative, I by David Jobling Pdf

David Jobling uses a structuralist method developed mainly from Claude Levi-Strauss and A.J. Greimas to apply to various texts and problems in the narrative sections of the Hebrew Bible. Areas of the Bible covered are 1 Samuel; Numbers 11-12, and 1 Kings 17-18.

Author : A. D. H. Mayes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191520433

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Text in Context by A. D. H. Mayes Pdf

The scholarly study of the Old Testament is now marked by a rich diversity of approaches and concerns. In the last two decades, an interest in the text and the implications for its interpretation is no longer the preserve of a single scholarly community, while the reconstruction of the history of the people from whom it derived has been transformed by new methods. This new book published under the auspices of the Society for Old Testament Study reflects these new approaches and developments, and has a particular concentration on literary and historical study. Thus, it not only clearly recognizes the diversity now inherent in 'Old Testament study', but also welcomes the integration into its field of the wide range of approaches available in current literary and historical investigation. The study of the biblical text and how it is received and interpreted by its various readerships has a certain logical priority over the study of its historical background and authorship. Yet an ongoing investigation of issues relating to the latter cannot await definitive conclusions on the former. So, essays on the text and its reception discuss primary issues which arise in Old Testament study, while those on background and authorship reflect the continued vitality of, and the fresh perspective possible in, more traditional scholarly concerns.

Author : Hans W. Frei
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : 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 : Karalina Matskevich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567686183

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Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis by Karalina Matskevich Pdf

Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2–3 and 12–36. Matskevich shows how the dominant 'Subject' – the androcentric ha'adam and the ethnocentric Israel – is perceived in relation to and over against the 'Other', represented respectively as female and foreign. Using the tools of narratology, semiotics and psychoanalysis, Matskevich highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the transforming power of difference it relies on for its signification. Thus, in Genesis 2-3 ha'adam can only emerge as a complex Subject in possession of knowledge with the help of woman, the transforming Other to whom the narrator (and Yahweh) attributes both the agency and the blame. Similarly, the narratives of Genesis 12–36 show a conflicted attitude to places of alterity: Egypt, the fertile and seductive space that threatens annihilation, and Haran, the 'mother's land', a complex metaphor for the feminine. The construction of identity in these narratives largely relies on the symbolic fecundity of the Other.

Author : Paul Morris,Deborah Sawyer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850753384

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A Walk in the Garden by Paul Morris,Deborah Sawyer Pdf

This collection of essays by notable scholars offers a unique, multi-faceted approach to the understanding of the Garden story. Starting with the motifs, context, structure and language of the biblical text itself, the chapters trace the Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions, and developments in literature and iconography. This is an invaluable book for students and scholars of biblical studies, theology, literature, art history and the psychology of religion.

Author : Duane Frederick Watson,Alan J. Hauser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004099034

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Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible by Duane Frederick Watson,Alan J. Hauser Pdf

This volume contains extensive bibliographies of works on rhetorical criticism of both the Old and New Testaments. Introductory chapters treat the development of rhetorical criticism and its influence on contemporary biblical interpretation.

Author : J. Cheryl Exum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521565065

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Tragedy and Biblical Narrative by J. Cheryl Exum Pdf

Using insights about ancient and modern tragedy, this study offers challenging and provocative new readings of selected Biblical narratives: the story of Israel's first king, Saul, rejected for his disobedience to God and driven to madness; the story of Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter in fulfillment of his vow to offer God a sacrifice in return for military victory; and the story of Israel's most famous king, David, whose tragedy lies in the burden of divine judgement that falls on his house as a consequence of his sins. The book discusses how these narratives handle such perennial tragic issues as guilt, suffering and evil.

Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567231550

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Feminist Companion to Samuel-Kings by Athalya Brenner-Idan Pdf

A stimulating collection of studies by leading feminist scholars offering radical readings of the Old Testament books of Samuel and Kings. Although gender ideology may have been only a 'side issue' for the writers of these texts, the articles in this collection show that it is definitely a constituent of the general ideological framework of this section of Israel's historiography, and they explore the texts for women's lives, female voices, gendered types, and the presence of women in the written history. As Athalya Brenner states in her introduction to the volume, in looking at the presentation of women and femaleness in Samuel and Kings we 'encounter chiefly relational images': women are seen as daughters, mothers, queen mothers, and in their relations to kings and prophets.

Author : David Jobling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:18083964

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The Sense of Biblical Narrative by David Jobling Pdf

Author : Wesley J. Bergen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567328670

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Elisha and the End of Prophetism by Wesley J. Bergen Pdf

The stories of Elisha the prophet have received scant attention in recent years, perhaps because they are so enigmatic. This study places the Elisha material firmly within the narrative of Genesis-2 Kings, and examines the effect these stories have on the reader's perception of the role of the 'prophet'. Using the narratological theories of Mieke Bal, David Jobling and others, Bergen shows that the Elisha stories present prophetism in a negative light, confining prophets to a rather limited scope of action in the narrative world.

Author : John A Beck
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.