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Author: Yaira Amit
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781451420449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased 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.
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011-04-26
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0465025552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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.
Author: Jan P. Fokkelman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-21
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9004397485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an enormously instructive and practical hands-on introduction for students of the Bible as literature, by one of the world’s leading exponents of Hebrew narrative technique. Issues covered include: introduction to the art of reading, the narrator and his characters, narrative structure, narrative devices.
Author: Danna Nolan Fewell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 0199967725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions. The Handbook covers the Bible's narrative literature, from Genesis to Revelation, providing concise overviews of literary-critical scholarship as well as innovative readings of individual narratives informed by a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The volume as a whole combines literary sensitivities with the traditional historical and sociological questions of biblical criticism and puts biblical studies into intentional conversation with other disciplines in the humanities. It reframes biblical literature in a way that highlights its aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to various forms of social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities.
Author: Hans W. Frei
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780300026023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaced 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.
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780664224394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA companion to Reading Biblical Narrative provides a holistic introduction to biblical poetry, offering literary examples of how the poets of the bible created their works. Original.
Author: Meir Sternberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1987-08-22
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 0253114047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeir Sternberg’s classic study is “an important book for those who seek to take the Bible seriously as a literary work.” (Adele Berlin, Prooftexts) In “a book to read and then reread” (Modern Language Review), Meir Sternberg “has accomplished an enormous task, enriching our understanding of the theoretical basis of Biblical narrative and giving us insight into a remarkable number of particular texts.” (Journal of the American Academy of Religion). The result is a “a brilliant work” (Choice) distinguished “both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which he understands and interprets the strategies of the biblical narratives.” (Theological Studies). The Poetics of Biblical Narrative shows, in Adele Berlin’s words, “more clearly and emphatically than any book I know, that the Bible is a serious literary work―a text manifesting a highly sophisticated and successful narrative poetics.”
Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: Lexham Press
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1683591534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first of a projected six-volume series called Reading the Bible as Literature (the second volume being Sweeter Than Honey, Richer Than Gold). An expert at exploring the intersection of the Bible and literature, Ryken shows pastors and students and teachers of the Bible how to appreciate the craftsmanship and beauty of biblical narrative and how to interpret it correctly. Dr. Ryken goes one step further than merely explaining the genre of story-he includes exercises to help students master this rich literary treasure.
Author: Adele Berlin
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781575060026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetics, the "science" of literature, makes us aware of how texts achieve their meaning. Poetics aids interpretation. If we know how texts mean, we are in a better position to discover what a particular text means. This is a book which offers fundamental guidelines for the sensitive reading and understanding of biblical stories. - Back cover.
Author: William S. Kurz
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780664254414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis excellent book shows how literary criticism illuminates the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, reclaiming them as Biblical narrative. Kurz explores literary aspects such as implied authors or readers, plot, and assumed information, or gaps. Finally, he traces the implications of reading Luke-Acts as canonical Scripture and the merits of literary methods.
