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Feb 3, 2015 · But since most of the biblical literature being read literarily was narrative literature, the slogan instead might have been: biblical narrative literature must be read as narrative—that is, with due attention to plot, characters, and all the other constituent elements of narrative. “High” structuralism of the Lévi-Straussian variety was on the wane by 1980, but “low” structuralism ...
Over the past 30 years, the study of biblical narrative has kept changing its focus; as has often happened over the millenia, it has followed changing fashions in secular literary criticism, even if keeping a few years behind (though a decreasing few). During the 1960s, interpreting biblical narrative meant discovering who wrote it and what historical events it referred to. That study remains ...
Feb 20, 2009 · A new skepticism toward the biblical narrative resulted, and radical scholars such as P. R. Davies and N. P. Lemche could say confidently that biblical Israel is only a literary creation and has almost no resemblance to Iron Age Israel.7 However, this bias is beginning to dissipate, and a recent interest (from the 1970s) in narrative approaches has reemerged, partly due to weaknesses in the ...
Jul 22, 1991 · Although the term narrative theologian has failed to gain general acceptance, narrative theology has come to have a major impact on much English-language theology since the early 1970s. The basic ...
May 17, 1992 · The discussion of Balaam is helpful. Alter notes that the first word of the Hebrew narrative is “see” (Nu. 22:2); “see,” “look,” and related words are continually repeated throughout the narrative. The continual repetition of the theme of “sight” intensifies the irony of Balaam’s blindness to the angel of the Lord.
Feb 3, 2015 · Abstract. Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook to Biblical Narrative offers critical treatments of both the Bible’s narratives and topics related to the Bible’s narrative constructions. The volume’s fifty-one chapters fall into five sections: The first section covers the general work of biblical ...
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Dec 12, 2019 · The approach to this problem that unfolds in Mystery displays Jüngel’s commitment to the so-called “New Hermeneutic,” sometimes otherwise labeled the “new” or “second quest for the historical Jesus.” A few comments on this strange and now long obsolete trend in mid-20th-century interpretation are in order as they help shed light ...
