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Zusatztext This handbook is a must read for anyone interested in the study of biblical narrative and should form the starting point for many groundbreaking narrative analysis. Informationen zum Autor Danna Nolan Fewell is the John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible at Drew University. She has published numerous books on biblical narrative, including Narrative in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 1993) and The Children of Israel: Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children (Abingdon, 2003), one of the first books in the discipline of biblical studies to employ a hermeneutical lens of children and childhood. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook to Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology that highlights biblical narrative's aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook to Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology that highlights biblical narrative's aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis OVERTURES Chapter 1 The Work of Biblical Narrative Danna Nolan Fewell Chapter 2 Biblical Narrative Analysis from the New Criticism to the New Narratology Stephen D. Moore Chapter 3 Biblical Narrative and the Birth of Prose Literature Robert S. Kawashima Chapter 4 New Testament Narrative and Greco-Roman Literature Austin Busch Chapter 5 Biblical Historiography As Traditional History Raymond Person Chapter 6 Poetry and Biblical Narrative Tod Linafelt BIBLICAL NARRATIVES Chapter 7 Telling and Retelling the Bible's First Story David M. Gunn Chapter 8 The Genesis of Identity in the Biblical World Danna Nolan Fewell and R. Christopher Heard Chapter 9 The Story of Exodus and Its Literary Kinships Kenneth Ngwa Chapter 10 Blood, Death, and the Holy in the Leviticus Narrative Bryan D. Bibb Chapter11 Becoming Israel in the Wilderness of Numbers Adriane Leveen Chapter 12 Remembering Narrative in Deuteronomy Brian Britt Chapter 13 The Conquest of Memory in the Book of Joshua Ovidiu Creang? Chapter 14 Judging Yhwh in the Book of Judges Deryn Guest Chapter 15 (Hi)story Telling in the books of Samuel Rachelle Gilmour Chapter 16 The Rule of Death and Signs of Life in the Book of Kings Keith Bodner Chapter 17 Narrative Among the Latter Prophets Patricia Tull Chapter 18 Divine Rhetoric and Prophetic Silence in the Book of Jonah Chesung Justin Ryu Chapter 19 Plural Versions and the Challenge of Narrative Coherence in the Book of Job Carol A. Newsom Chapter 20 Reading Ruth, Reading Desire Stephanie Day Powell, Amy Beth Jones, and Dong Sung Kim Chapter 21 Bodies, Boundaries, and Belonging in the Book of Esther Anne-Mareike Wetter Chapter 22 Warring Words in the Book of Daniel Terry Ann Smith Chapter 23 Political Strategy in the Narrative of Ezra - Nehemiah Donna Laird Chapter 24 The Patrilineal Narrative Machinery of Chronicles Julie Kelso Chapter 25 Time and Focalization in the Gospel According to Mark Scott S. Elliott Chapter 26 Narrative Readings, Contextualized Readers, and Matthew's Gospel Warren Carter Chapter 27 Witnesses for the Defense in the Gospel of Luke Abraham Smith Chapter 28 The Acts of the Apostles, Narrative, and History Rube?n Rene? Dupertuis Chapter 29 The Narrative Identities of the Gospel of John Francisco Lozada, Jr. Chapter 30 Shifting Biblical ...
