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Reading Biblical Narratives

Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible
  • ISBN-13: 9780800632809
  • Publisher: AUGSBURG FORTRESS PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • Edited by Yairah Amit
  • Price: AUD $62.99
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  • Local release date: 18/09/2001
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 200 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biblical commentaries [HRCG1]
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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 dialogue, she brings the biblical text to life, helping the reader enter the stories from new vantage points.
Yairah Amit is Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel, She is the author of Hidden Polemics in Biblical Narrative (Brill, 2000), The Book of Judges: The Art of Editing (Brill, 1999), and History and Ideology in the Bible: An Introduction to Historiography in the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield Academic, 1997).
Preface The Power of Stories Story Scholars and the Role of the Reader A Biblical Story alongside Biblical Criticism Beginnings and Endings Plot, Structure, and Their Function Creating Characters with Minimal Means Whom to Believe? The Biblical Story and The Use of Time Place, Story, History Inherent and Added Significance The Story and Its Contexts Afterword Abbreviations Notes Works Cited Index of Biblical References
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