The Sense of Biblical Narrative
Author: David Jobling
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1850750467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Jobling
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1850750467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Yaira Amit
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781451420449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based 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: Hans W. Frei
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780300026023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Laced 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.
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011-04-26
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780465022557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since it was first published nearly three decades ago, The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter presents the Hebrew Bible as a cohesive literary work, one whose many authors used innovative devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of human history: the revelation of a single god.
Author: David Jobling
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780905774121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jerome T. Walsh
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2017-08-24
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0814683762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The pages of the Hebrew Bible are filled with stories - short and long, funny and sad, histories, fables, and morality tales. The ancient narrators used a variety of stylistic devices to structure, to connect, and to separate their tales - and thus to establish contexts within which meaning comes to light. What are these devices, and how do they guide our reading and our understanding of the text? Style and Structure in Biblical Hebrew Narrative explores some of the answers and shows scriptural interpretation can be a matter of style." Part one of Style and Structure in Biblical Hebrew Narrative examines a wide variety of symmetrical patterns biblical Hebrew narrative uses to organize its units and subunits, and the interpretive dynamics those patterns can imply. Part two addresses the question of boundaries between literary units. Part three examines devices that biblical Hebrew narrative uses to connect consecutive literary units and subunits. Chapters in Part One: Structures of Organization are "Reverse Symmetry," "Forward Symmetry," "Alternating Repetition," "Partial Symmetry," "Multiple Symmetry," "Asymmetry." Chapters in Part Two: Structures of Disjunction are "Narrative Components," "Repetition," and "Narrative Sequence." Chapters in Part Three: Structures of Conjunction are "Threads," "Links: Examples," "Linked Threads: Examples," "Hinges: Examples," and "Double-Duty Hinges: Examples." Jerome T. Walsh, PhD, is a professor of theology and religious studies at the University of Botswana. He is the author of 1 Kings in the Berit Olam (The Everlasting Covenant) Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry series for which he is also an associate editor. "
Author: John A Beck
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 2008-06-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780827212541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bible is filled with carefully told stories that are designed to reach from their pages into our lives. They reach out to entertain us. They cause us to laugh or make us cry. But most importantly, the stories in the Bible shape our thinking and our faith. This book honors the role of God as storyteller and explores how God's inspired authors carefully select and present an event so as to instill it with meaning. In order to deepen our appreciation of the storyteller's craft, this book surveys the traditional categories of narrative criticism to see how the design of scene, plot, characterization, narration, time, and wordplay shape the story we read. But the reader will also find a considerable portion of this book devoted to a new form of narrative analysis-narrative geography. Since the stories of the Bible are filled not only with people but also with place, we note how the storyteller may strategically use, reuse, and nuance geography as part of the storytelling process. As we come to a fuller appreciation of how the events of the Bible become its stories, we will have set the stage for a discussion of the reader's craft, seeking meaning in such stories. In the end, the reader will be rewarded with a new and exciting way of reading God's stories that appreciates not only their composition but also their meaning.
Author: David Jobling
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1978-09-01
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 0567614816
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →David Jobling uses a structuralist method developed mainly from Claude Levi-Strauss and A.J. Greimas to apply to various texts and problems in the narrative sections of the Hebrew Bible. Areas of the Bible covered are 1 Samuel; Numbers 11-12, and 1 Kings 17-18.
Author: Adele Berlin
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781575060026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poetics, 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.