Narrative analogy in the Hebrew Bible : battle stories and their equivalent non-battle narratives /

Narrative analogy in the Hebrew Bible : battle stories and their equivalent non-battle narratives /

This volume sheds fresh light upon the phenomenon of narrative doubling in the Hebrew Bible. Through an innovative interdisciplinary model the author defines the notion of narrative analogy in relation to other literatures where it has been studied such as English Renaissance drama and makes extensi...

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Main Author: Berman, Joshua.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 103.
Vetus Testamentum, Supplements 103.
Vetus Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264991.

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Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, Narrative.
Military history in the Bible.

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Call Number: BS410 BS1199.M47 .V452 vol. 103

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Summary:This volume sheds fresh light upon the phenomenon of narrative doubling in the Hebrew Bible. Through an innovative interdisciplinary model the author defines the notion of narrative analogy in relation to other literatures where it has been studied such as English Renaissance drama and makes extensive critical use of contemporary literary theory, particularly that of the Russian formalist Vladimir Propp. His exploitation of narrative doubling, with a focus upon the metaphorical, reorients our reading by uncovering a major dynamic in biblical literature. The author examines several battle reports and demonstrates how each could be interpreted as an oblique commentary and metaphor for the non-battle account that immediately precedes it. Battle scenes are revealed to stand in metaphoric analogy with, among others, accounts of a trial, a rape, a drinking feast, and a court-deliberation. Joshua Berman offers new insights to the ever-growing concern with the relationship between historiography and literary strategies, and succeeds in articulating a new aspect of biblical ideology concerning human and divine relationship.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-232) and indexes.
ISBN:9789047413684
ISSN:0083-5889 ;
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