Reading Biblical Narratives

Author: Yaira Amit
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451420449
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
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.

The Art of Biblical Narrative

Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465025552
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
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.

Reading Biblical Narrative

Author: Jan P. Fokkelman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004397485
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
This 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.

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative

Author: Danna Nolan Fewell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199967725
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 657

Book Description
Comprised 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.

Reading Biblical Poetry

Author:
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664224394
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
A 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.

How Bible Stories Work

Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: Lexham Press
ISBN: 1683591534
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
This 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.

Telling God's Story

Author: Preben Vang
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433680017
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
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!

Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives

Author: Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
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.

Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode

Author: Robert S. Kawashima
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253003201
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Informed by literary theory and Homeric scholarship as well as biblical studies, Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode sheds new light on the Hebrew Bible and, more generally, on the possibilities of narrative form. Robert S. Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic in order to account for the "novelty" of biblical prose narrative. Long before Herodotus or Homer, Israelite writers practiced an innovative narrative art, which anticipated the modern novelist's craft. Though their work is undeniably linked to the linguistic tradition of the Ugaritic narrative poems, there are substantive differences between the bodies of work. Kawashima views biblical narrative as the result of a specifically written verbal art that we should counterpose to the oral-traditional art of epic. Beyond this strictly historical thesis, the study has theoretical implications for the study of narrative, literature, and oral tradition. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature -- Herbert Marks, General Editor

Reading Luke-Acts

Author: William S. Kurz
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664254414
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
This 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.