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1 online resource (302 pages) |
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BibleWorld |
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Bible world (London, England)
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: More Things-Marvels, Monsters, Miracles; Fantasy and Religion in Interaction; Selection of Material; Contentions and Contribution; A Reader's Guide to the Book; 1 Fields of Fantasy; Fantasy and Religion-Previous Work; Ambiguous Response: Exegetical Interpretations of Exodus' Fantastic Elements; Conclusion; 2 Fantasy and Religious Narrative: Theory and Strategy; Fantasy Narrative-Ancient and Timeless or Inherently Modern?; Fantasy Theory as a Perspective; Reading Hebrew Bible Literature |
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3 Marvels, Magic and Mystery: Reading the Fantastic in the Exodus NarrativePhantasmagenesis-Ethnogenesis: Analyses; Mysterious Fruitfulness; Ambivalent Coincidence-Strange Identity; What Was Your Name Again? Revelation-Mystification; Magic, Mutability, Belief in Exodus 4; An Attack from Above-and a Bloody Release (I) (Exod. 4:24-26); Dayenu-or Fantastic Excess in Exodus 5-6; Heightened Hypertrophy in Exodus 7-11; An Attack from Above-and a Bloody Release (II); Dreadful of Radiance, Worker of Wonder; Locus Transformationis |
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4 Between Wonder and Doubt: Fantastic Strategies, Their Effects and Status in the Exodus NarrativeNegotiations of the Status of the Phantasms; Tracing a Fantastic Effect; 5 Exodus as Mnemo-Fantasy: The Functions of the Fantastic in the Exodus Narrative; Introduction; Mnemonic Techniques, the Fantastic and the Levels of Narration; Narrative Integration, Ritual and Mnemonic Practices; Memory and the Fantastic in Exodus; Cultural Memory-Autobiographical Memory; Fantasy Functions; 6 From Ethnogenesis to Everyday Life: Contextualizing the Fantastic in Hebrew Bible Narrative |
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Narrating the ExtraordinaryWhat Is the Length of YHWH's Hand? Numbers 11-14; Where Are All His Wonders Now? Judges 6-8; Prophets in the Perilous Realm: Elijah and Elisha; Hic sunt dracones: The Fantastic Element Narrative; 7 Es spukt ...-The Fantastic in Religious Narrative; The Fantastic in Hebrew Bible Religious Narrative; Religious Reception and Broader Contexts-A Discussion; The Fantastic and Religious Narrative-Towards a Broadening of the Perspective; ... between Heaven and Earth; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors |
| Summary |
''The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha'' examines the astonishing array of marvels, monsters, and magic depicted in the Hebrew Bible. These stories - with the Exodus narrative at their centre - offer ambiguity and uncertainty, encouraging reflection and doubt as much as belief and meaningfulness. Aiming to discover - rather than explain away - the power of these stories, the book argues for the need to incorporate destabilization, disorientation, and ambiguity more strongly into theories of what religious narrative is and does |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, Narrative
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Bible. Exodus -- Criticism, Narrative
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Bible. Exodus fast |
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Fantastic, The, in the Bible.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
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Fantastic, The, in the Bible
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317543848 |
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131754384X |
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9781317543831 |
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1317543831 |
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9781315728742 |
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1315728745 |
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