Song and Story in Biblical Narrative
Song and Story in Biblical Narrative

Author: Steven Weitzman

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1997-10-22

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780253114204

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"... a book which asks and answers a new, interesting question, using a rich range of biblical and humanistic methodologies." -- Journal of Biblical Literature This book examines a literary form within the Bible that has slipped through the cracks of modern scholarship: the mixing of song and story in biblical narrative. Journeying from ancient Egyptian battle accounts to Aramaic wisdom texts to early retellings of biblical tales in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, and rabbinic midrash, Steven Weitzman follows the history of this form from its origins as a congeries of different literary behaviors to its emergence as a self-conscious literary convention.

Telling God's Story
Telling God's Story

Author: Preben Vang

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1433680017

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How well do you know His story? By the time a Christian reaches young adulthood, he is likely to be quite familiar with every major story in the Bible, but not from having studied them in any particular order. Ask an average Bible student to arrange certain characters and events chronologically, and the results are telling. Telling God’s Story looks closely at the Bible from its beginning in Genesis to its conclusion in Revelation. By approaching Scripture as one purposefully flowing narrative, emphasizing the inter-connectedness of the text, veteran college professors Preben Vang and Terry G. Carter reinforce the Bible’s greatest teachings and help readers in their own ability to share God’s story effectively with others. Ideal for classroom settings, this second edition of Telling God's Story now features all supporting charts, photographs, and illustrations in full color!

Song of Songs
Song of Songs

Author: J. Cheryl Exum

Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0664238416

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This original commentary foregrounds at every turn the poetic genius of the Song of Songs, one of the most elusive texts of the Hebrew Bible. J. Cheryl Exum locates that genius in the way the Song not only tells but shows its readers that love is strong as death, thereby immortalizing love, as well as in the way the poet explores the nature of love by a mature sensitivity to how being in love is different for the woman and the man. Many long-standing conundrums in the interpretation of the book are offered persuasive solutions in Exum's verse by verse exegesis. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.

Telling God's Story
Telling God's Story

Author: Preben Vang

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780805432824

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Bridging the gaps for those who've acquired their Bible knowledge in random order, professors Vang and Carter help readers comprehend the Bible as one cohesive story from beginning to end.

Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives
Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives

Author: Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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The trend toward elective courses in public schools and mounting interest in the Bible as an academic study prompted this collection of literary analyses. Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives is the only book of its kind written specifically for use by teachers and is the first of a series of teaching resources called The Bible in Literature Courses. This series is specifically designed to meet the needs of teachers and students of both secondary school literature and undergraduate college literature. - Back cover.

The Art of Biblical Narrative
The Art of Biblical Narrative

Author: Robert Alter

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2011-04-26

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0465025552

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From 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.