Author: David JoblingPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1850750467
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
The Sense of Biblical Narrative
Author: David JoblingPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1850750467
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
The Art of Biblical Narrative
Author: Robert AlterPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465025552
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Sense of Biblical Narrative, I
Author: David JoblingPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567614816
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
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.
The Sense of Biblical Narrative II
Author: David JoblingPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567426807
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
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.
Sense of biblical narrative
Author: David JoblingThe sense of biblical narrative
Author: David JoblingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780905774121
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reading Biblical Narratives
Author: Yaira AmitPublisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451420449
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
The Sense of Biblical Narrative
Author: David JoblingThe Eclipse of Biblical Narrative
Author: Hans W. FreiPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300026023
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
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.
Closure in Biblical Narrative
Author: Susan ZeelanderPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004221301
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
There has been much discussion of narrative aspects of the Bible in recent years, but the ends of biblical narratives – how the ends contribute to closure for their stories and how the ending strategies affect the whole narrative – have not been studied comprehensively. This study shows how the writers and editors of short narratives in Genesis gave their stories a sense of closure (or in a few cases, the sense of non-closure). Multiple and sometimes unexpected, forms of closure are identified; together these form a set of closural conventions. This contribution to narrative poetics of the Hebrew Bible in the light of source criticism will also be valuable to those who are interested in narrative and in concepts of closure.