| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) |
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Oxford Bible series |
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Oxford Bible series.
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| Contents |
1. Strategies for Reading -- Narrative -- Biblical narrative -- Historical criticism, literary criticism, and the meanings of the text -- Varieties of interpretation: Genesis 4 through 2000 years -- Similarity and difference -- 2. Tamar and Judah: Genesis 38 -- 3. Characters and Narrators -- Readers and people -- The narrator -- The characters -- Reconstructing characters -- Reconstructing YHWH -- 4. Abraham and Sarah: Genesis 11-22 -- 5. Designs on the Plot -- Reading for the plot: desire for order -- Plots and points of view: Judges 10-12 -- Fracturing the plot: the codas to Judges and Samuel -- 6. Jonah and God: The Book of Jonah -- 7. The Lure of Language -- Repetition and variation -- Multivalence, ambiguity, and metaphor -- Reading for the metaphor: Judges 1 -- Allusion and intertextuality -- Reading between words and stories: the house of David -- 8. Nebuchadnezzar and the Three Jews: Daniel 3 -- 9. Readers and Responsibility -- Literature and ideology -- The Bible and ideology -- Genesis 2-3: women, men, and God |
| Summary |
After almost two centuries of historical criticism, biblical scholarship has recently taken major shifts in direction, most notably toward literary study of the Bible. Much germinal criticism has taken as its primary focus narrative texts of the Hebrew Bible (the "Old Testament"). This study provides a lucid guide to the interpretive possibilities of this movement. Attempting to be both theoretical and practical, it combines discussion of methods and the business of reading in general with numerous illustrations through readings of particular texts. Gunn and Fewell discuss how literary criticism is related to other dominant ways of reading the text over the last two thousand years. In addition, they address characters, including the narrator and God; plot, modifying recent theory to accommodate the peculiar complexity of biblical narratives; and the play of language through repetition, ambiguity, multivalence, metaphor, and intertextuality. Finally, the authors discuss readers and responsibility, exploring the ideological dimension of narrative interpretation. An extensive bibliography completes the book, arranged by subject and biblical text |
| Analysis |
Christianity Scriptures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-252) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
880-01 Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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880-01/(S Bible. A.T. -- Critique, interprγ̐ưetation, etc. ram |
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Bible. Jonah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Daniel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Daniel fast |
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Bible. Genesis fast |
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Bible. Jonah fast |
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Bibel Altes Testament gnd |
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Bible. A.T. -- Critique, interprétation, etc. ram |
| Subject |
Narration in the Bible.
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Bible as literature.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
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Bible as literature
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Narration in the Bible
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Erzähltechnik
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Epik
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Oude Testament.
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Vertelkunst.
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Narration dans la Bible.
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Bible as literature.
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Narration in the Bible.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fewell, Danna Nolan.
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| ISBN |
9780191590979 |
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0191590975 |
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0585135886 |
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9780585135885 |
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