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, narrative structure,...

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Main Author: Fokkelman, Jan P. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1999.

Series: Tools for Biblical Study 1.
Deo Publishing, Religion and Theology Special E-Book Collection, 1999-2017, ISBN: 9789004401549.

Subjects:

Bible as literature.
Narration in the Bible.
Bible (Littérature)

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Call Number: BS535

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Jan Fokkelman
  • Preface /
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  • Preliminary exercise: a very short story /
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  • Introduction: the art of reading /
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  • Twelve stories at a glance /
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  • The narrator and his characters /
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  • Action, plot, quest, and hero /
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  • Time and space, entrances and exits /
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  • The power of repetition /
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  • Points of view, knowledge and values /
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  • Stories organized /
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  • The collaboration of prose and poetry /
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  • The New Testament /
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  • The reader's attitude /
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  • The next 110 stories /
  • Jan Fokkelman.