Title Song and story in biblical narrative : the history of a literary convention in ancient Israel / Steven Weitzman

Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) Series Indiana studies in biblical literature Indiana studies in biblical literature. Summary Journeying from ancient Egyptian battle accounts to Aramaic wisdom text to early retellings of biblical tales in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, and rabbinic midrash, Steven Weitzman follows the history of the use of song in biblical narrative from its origins as a congeries of different literary behaviors to its emergence as a self-conscious literary convention. Weitzman shows that the perception among early Jews that biblical narrative was a normative text governing both religious and literary behavior played a catalytic role in transforming this practice into a distinctively "biblical" literary form. This book sheds light not only on one of the Bible's more perplexing literary traits but on literary practice in ancient Israel and shows how the changing literary expectations and religious sensibilities of readers can lead them to reimagine the texts they seek to understand Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-193) and indexes Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Language, style Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc Bible. Old Testament fast Bibel Altes Testament gnd Bibel gnd Subject Hebrew poetry, Biblical -- History and criticism Narration in the Bible. RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament. Language and languages -- Style Hebrew poetry, Biblical Narration in the Bible Erzählen Literaturgattung Lyrik Lied Liederen. Oude Testament. Hebräisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0585104743 9780585104744

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