Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode write by Robert S. Kawashima. This book was released on 2004-12-09. Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Informed by literary theory and Homeric scholarship as well as biblical studies, Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode sheds new light on the Hebrew Bible and, more generally, on the possibilities of narrative form. Robert S. Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic in order to account for the "novelty" of biblical prose narrative. Long before Herodotus or Homer, Israelite writers practiced an innovative narrative art, which anticipated the modern novelist's craft. Though their work is undeniably linked to the linguistic tradition of the Ugaritic narrative poems, there are substantive differences between the bodies of work. Kawashima views biblical narrative as the result of a specifically written verbal art that we should counterpose to the oral-traditional art of epic. Beyond this strictly historical thesis, the study has theoretical implications for the study of narrative, literature, and oral tradition. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature -- Herbert Marks, General Editor
Biblical Narration and the Death of the Rhapsode
Biblical Narration and the Death of the Rhapsode - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biblical Narration and the Death of the Rhapsode write by Robert Saiji Kawashima. This book was released on 2001. Biblical Narration and the Death of the Rhapsode available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reading Genesis
Reading Genesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Genesis write by Ronald Hendel. This book was released on 2010-09-27. Reading Genesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading Genesis presents a panoramic view of the most vital ways that Genesis is approached in modern scholarship. Essays by ten eminent scholars cover the perspectives of literature, gender, memory, sources, theology, and the reception of Genesis in Judaism and Christianity. Each contribution addresses the history and rationale of the method, insightfully explores particular texts of Genesis, and deepens the interpretive gain of the method in question. These ways of reading Genesis, which include its classic past readings, map out a pluralistic model for understanding Genesis in - and for - the modern age.
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative write by Danna Fewell. This book was released on 2016-06-01. The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions. The Handbook covers the Bible's narrative literature, from Genesis to Revelation, providing concise overviews of literary-critical scholarship as well as innovative readings of individual narratives informed by a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The volume as a whole combines literary sensitivities with the traditional historical and sociological questions of biblical criticism and puts biblical studies into intentional conversation with other disciplines in the humanities. It reframes biblical literature in a way that highlights its aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to various forms of social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities.
The Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Genesis write by Craig A. Evans. This book was released on 2012-03-20. The Book of Genesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by leading experts in the field, The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Genesis study. Its twenty-nine essays fall under four main sections. The first section contains studies of a more general nature, including the history of Genesis in critical study, Genesis in literary and historical study, as well as the function of Genesis in the Pentateuch. In the second portion, scholars present commentary on or interpretation of specific passages (or sections) of Genesis, as well as essays on its formation, genres, and themes. The third part includes essays on the textual history and reception of Genesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The final section explores the theologies of the book of Genesis, including essays on Genesis and ecology and Genesis in the context of Jewish thought.
