Reading biblical narrative: a practical guide
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
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- Full title :Reading biblical narrative : a practical guide / Jan Fokkelman ; translated by Ineke Smit.
Summary
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
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- Publication Date:©1999
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Deo Publishing
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1999
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789004397484, 9004397485
- oclc:on1201258718
- LC Classification:BS535
- Dewey Decimal:220.66
Table of Contents
Preface -- Preliminary exercise: a very short story: 2 Kings 4:1-7 -- Introduction: the art of reading components I and II -- Twelve stories at a glance: the practice area -- The narrator and his characters -- Action, hero, quest and plot -- Time and space, entrances and exits: the power of a correct structuration -- The power of repetition: the dialectics of similarity and difference -- Points of view, knowledge and values -- Stories organized: act, cycle, book -- The collaboration of prose and poetry -- The New Testament -- The reader's attitude, ten productive questions: suggestions for further reading.
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