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A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative

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For scholars and students of New Testament literature

Clarifies the understanding of biblical characterisation

You will gain fresh insights into character analysis

This book presents a new theory of character in New Testament narratives.

Cornelis Bennema presents a new theory of characterization in the New Testament literature. Although character has been the subject of focused literary-critical study of the New Testament (and a point of connection with "character ethics") since the 1970s, Cornelis Bennema observes that there is still no consensus regarding how characterization should be understood in contemporary literary theory or in biblical studies. Many New Testament scholars seem to presume that characters in Greco-Roman literature are two-dimensional, "Aristotelian" figures, unlike the well-rounded, psychologized individuals who appear in modern fiction. They continue nevertheless to apply contemporary literary theory to characters in ancient writings. Bennema here offers a full, comprehensive, and non-reductionist theory for the analysis, classification, and evaluation of characters in the New Testament.
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  • Title

    A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative

  • Authors

    Cornelis Bennema +1

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    April 2014

  • Weight

    323g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 22.8 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451472219

  • ISBN-10

    1451472218

  • Eden Code

    4270185

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