"The Book of Job in Form presents to the reader a platform for a personal and intensive encounter with a great work of art. Its bilingual centre offers the text in Hebrew and English, and shows the forty poems in their original form, in 412 strophes and 165 stanzas. The commenta…
Fokkelman presents the Hebrew and the English text of Job in its original contours and proportions (412 strophes, 165 stanzas), weighs the poet's precision (who counted his syllables on all text levels) and redraws the portrait of the hero: integrity vindicated.
Reading biblical narrative: a practical guide
Reading Biblical narrative: a practical guide
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, narr…
Reading biblical narrative: a practical guide
Originally published in Dutch, Jan Fokkelman's practical guide to reading biblical stories examines narrative, structure, action, heroes and plot and covers both the Old and New Testaments.
Narrator, character, action, hero, quest, plot, time, and space...the best approach to the scriptures takes seriously the literary character of biblical texts and understands the features, ground rules, and structure of narrative and poetry. This introduction enables readers who…
Narrator, character, action, hero, quest, plot, time, and space ... the best approach to the scriptures takes seriously the literary character of biblical texts and understands the features, ground rules, and structure of narrative and poetry. This introduction enables readers w…
