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Narrative Obtrusion in the Hebrew Bible

by Christopher T. Paris

  • Paperback
  • 176 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.9 x 22.8 x 1.3 cm

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For scholars and students of biblical literature

Sheds light on narrative techniques in the Hebrew Bible

You will gain deeper insights into biblical storytelling

This insightful book explores narrative interruptions in the Hebrew Bible.

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Narrative critics of the Hebrew Bible often describe the biblical narrators as "laconic," "terse," or "economical." The narrators generally remain in the background, allowing the story to proceed while relying on characters and dialogue to provide necessary information to readers. On those occasions when these narrators add notes to their stories, scholars may characterize such interruptions as "asides" or redactions. Christopher T. Paris calls attention to just these narrative interruptions, in which the story teller "breaks frame" to provide information about a character or even in order to direct reader understanding and, Paris argues, to prevent undesirable construals or interpretations of the story. Paris focuses on the Deuteronomistic History. Here the narrator occasionally obtrudes into the narrative to manage or deflect anticipated reader questions and assumptions, sometimes invoking the divine, sometimes protecting a favored character, in an interpretive stance that Paris compares with the commentary provided by later rabbis and in the Targums.
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  • Author

    Christopher T. Paris

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    July 2014

  • Weight

    327g

  • Page Count

    176

  • Dimensions

    15.9 x 22.8 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451482119

  • ISBN-10

    1451482116

  • Eden Code

    4285729

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