Poetics And Interpretation Of Biblical Narrative

Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9781575060026
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative written by Adele Berlin and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1983 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetics, the "science" of literature, makes us aware of how texts achieve their meaning. Poetics aids interpretation. If we know how texts mean, we are in a better position to discover what a particular text means. This is a book which offers fundamental guidelines for the sensitive reading and understanding of biblical stories. - Back cover.

Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 : 9780907459248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative written by Adele Berlin and published by Continuum. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetics, the "science" of literature, makes us aware of how texts achieve their meaning. Poetics aids interpretation. If we know how texts mean, we are in a better position to discover what a particular text means. This is a book which offers fundamental guidelines for the sensitive reading and understanding of biblical stories. - Back cover.

Author : Meir Sternberg
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253114047
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Biblical Narrative written by Meir Sternberg and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987-08-22 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meir Sternberg’s classic study is “an important book for those who seek to take the Bible seriously as a literary work.” (Adele Berlin, Prooftexts) In “a book to read and then reread” (Modern Language Review), Meir Sternberg “has accomplished an enormous task, enriching our understanding of the theoretical basis of Biblical narrative and giving us insight into a remarkable number of particular texts.” (Journal of the American Academy of Religion). The result is a “a brilliant work” (Choice) distinguished “both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which he understands and interprets the strategies of the biblical narratives.” (Theological Studies). The Poetics of Biblical Narrative shows, in Adele Berlin’s words, “more clearly and emphatically than any book I know, that the Bible is a serious literary work―a text manifesting a highly sophisticated and successful narrative poetics.”

Author : Yaira Amit
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451420449
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Biblical Narratives written by Yaira Amit and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a series of lectures given in Israel, Amit introduces the reader to the subtle ways of the biblical narrators. Covering issues of character, plot development, catchword association, narration, and dialog, she brings the biblical text to life, helping the reader enter the stories from new vantage points.

Author : Harold Fisch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253205643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry with a Purpose written by Harold Fisch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do Old Testament poetry and narrative, wisdom-writing and prophecy work on us in the same way as do nonbiblical literary texts? Competent readers over the centuries have arrived at conflicting answers to this question. Some (from Longinus on) have maintained that biblical books offer examples of supreme literary art; others have passionately rejected this approach, insisting that beauty and pleasure are not the Bible's business. Poetry with a Purpose argues that, paradoxically, both views are right. Biblical poetics is marked by an unusual tension between aesthetic and nonaesthetic (even anti-aesthetic) modes of discourse. To understand this dialectic is to understand something quite fundamental about biblical texts and, more particularly, about the nature of the contract that governs their reading. The text summons the reader to respond to a familiar form but at the same instant undermines that response, deconstructs that form. The book of Ester, for example, displays the conventions of the Persian epic tradition, but its style is subtly challenged by the text itself. Similarly, the book of Job might seem to conform to the classical concept of tragedy but ultimately presents a uniquely biblical version of the form. While the prophets use the language of myth, they will often explode or "demythologize" their own language, affirming purposed at variance with the world of myth. Harold Fisch applies his remarkably fruitful thesis to a number of biblical texts and modes, among them biblical pastoral, the Song of Songs, Psalms, Hosea, and Ecclesiastes. Equally at home in biblical studies and in general literature and theory, the author has produced a highly original work of unusual range and scholarship.

Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467466735
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism written by Adele Berlin and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding of biblical poetry is enhanced by the study of its structure. In this book Adele Berlin analyzes parallelism, a major feature of Hebrew poetry, from a linguistic perspective. This new edition of Berlin's study features an additional chapter, "The Range of Biblical Metaphors inSmikhut,"by late Russian linguist Lida Knorina. Berlin calls this addition "innovative and instructive to those who value the linguistic analysis of poetry." It is a fitting coda to Berlin's adept analysis.

Author : Robert Walter Funk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Biblical Narrative written by Robert Walter Funk and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering work that answers the question: What do we do when we tell a story? Using examples from the Bible and popular literature, Robert Funk examines the structure of stories to uncover the underlying grammar of the narrative.

Author : Shimeon Bar-Efrat
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1850751331
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Art in the Bible written by Shimeon Bar-Efrat and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new series is designed with the needs of introductory level students in mind. It will also appeal to general readers who want to be better informed about the latest advances in our understanding of the Bible and of the intellectual, political and religious world in which it was formed." "The authors in this series bring to light the methods and insights of a whole range of disciplines - including archaeology, history, literary criticism and the social sciences - while also introducing fresh insights and approaches arising from their own research."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Meir Sternberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824506407
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Biblical Narrative written by Meir Sternberg and published by . This book was released on 1984-05-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465028195
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Biblical Poetry written by Robert Alter and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond narrative craft to investigate the use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. Updated with a new preface, myriad revisions, and passages from Alter's own critically acclaimed biblical translations, The Art of Biblical Poetry is an indispensable tool for understanding the Bible and its poetry.