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    • Authors

      David M. Gunn (Professor of the Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA) +1

    • Book Format

      paperback (B format)

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      June 1993

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    Narrative In The Hebrew Bible

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    After almost two centuries of historical criticism, biblical scholarship has recently taken major shifts in direction, most notably towards literary study of the Bible. Much germinal criticism has taken as its primary focus narrative texts of the Hebrew Bible (the 'Old Testament'). This book belongs in this movement and provides a lucid guide to its interpretative possibilities. It tries to be both theoretical and practical, combining discussion of method and the business of reading in general with numerous illustrations through readings of particular texts. The opening chapter indicates how literary criticism is related to other dominant ways of reading the text over the last two thousand years, using as an example the story of Cain and Abel. In subsequent methodological chapters, the authors discuss characters, not excluding the narrator and God; plot, modifying recent theory to accommodate the peculiar complexity of biblical narratives; and the play of language through repetition, ambiguity, multivalence, metaphor and intertextuality.;The concluding chapter, on readers and responsibility, explores the ideological dimension of narrative interpretation, with particular attention to Genesis 1-3, a story which has generated much discussion about gender and social hierarchy. Does this text define or challenge the statusquo (of either the ancient or the modern world)? The authors lay out some of the debate and question what values are at work when we and others read and champion readings. Other extended readings include: the stories of Abraham and Sarah, and of Tamar and Judah in Genesis, the book of Jonah, and the account of Nebuchadnezzar and the three Jews thrown into the fiery furnace, fromthe book of Daniel. An extensive bibliography completes the book, arranged by subject and biblical text.

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    • Authors

      David M. Gunn (Professor of the Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA) +1

    • Book Format

      paperback (B format)

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      June 1993

    • Additional Information

      xvi263

    • Weight

      277g

    • Page Count

      280

    • Dimensions

      129 x 195 x 21 mm

    • ISBN

      9780192132451

    • ISBN-10

      0192132458

    • Eden Code

      3480

    More Information

    • ISBN: 9780192132451

    • Publisher: Oxford University Press

    • Release Date: June 1993

    • Weight: 277g

    • Dimensions: 129 x 195 x 21 mm

    • Eden Code: 3480


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