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What is a Story? It is a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence—dinner coming after breakfast, Tuesday after Monday, decay after death, and so on. Qua story, it can have only one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next.
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1. Old Testament narratives are not allegories or stories filled with hidden meanings. 2. Old Testament narratives are not primarily intended to teach moral lessons. Their overall purpose is to tell what God was doing in Israel. 3. Old Testament narratives are implicit examples of explicit teaching given elsewhere in Scripture. III. How to ...
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Principles for Interpreting Narratives Old Testament narrative usually does not directly teach a doctrine. Old Testament narrative usually illustrates a doctrine taught elsewhere in Scripture. Narratives record what happened, not what ought to happen every time. What people do in a narrative is not always a good example for us to follow.
The most common type of literature in the Bible is narrative. 40% of the Old Testament is narrative and three fourths of the Bible is Old Testament. This present chapter focuses on how Hebrew narrative works.
OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVES 1. A narrative is a story. About 40% of the Old Testament is narrative. It is the most common genre in the Bible. Narratives do not provide us with full biographies of individuals. They usually serve to reveal something about God and/or his redemptive purposes. The characters are not always presented as role models. The
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Old Testament narratives focus on God and anticipate the Christ. As with all history writing, the Bible’s narratives are selective and purposeful in their presentation.
