Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions. The Handbook covers the Bible's narrative literature, from Genesis to Revelation, providing concise overviews of literary-critical scholarship as well as innovative readings of individual narratives informed by a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The volume as a whole combines literary sensitivities with the traditional historical and sociological questions of biblical criticism and puts biblical studies into intentional conversation with other disciplines in the humanities. It reframes biblical literature in a way that highlights its aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to various forms of social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities.
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The Oxford Handbook of 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.
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PART I: 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 PART II: 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 Chapter 11: 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 Ruben Rene Dupertuis Chapter 29:The Narrative Identities of the Gospel of John Francisco Lozada, Jr. Chapter 30:Shifting Biblical Parables Robert Paul Seesengood Chapter 31:Narrative, Metanarrative, and the Letters of Paul Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre Chapter 32:Narrative Technique in the Book of Revelation David Barr PART III: THE BIBLE AND BODIES Chapter 33:Plotting Bodies in Biblical Narrative Jeremy Schipper Chapter 34:Reading Biblical Women Matters Judith E. McKinlay Chapter 35:Adam and the Making of Masculinity Eric Thurman Chapter 36:Children in Biblical Narrative and Childist Interpretation Kathleen Gallagher Elkins and Julie Faith Parker Chapter 37:Reading Others as the Subject(s) of Biblical Narrative Robert D. Maldonado Chapter 38:Animating the Bible's Animals Ken Stone Chapter 39:Sex and Sexuality in Biblical Narrative Dora Mbuwayesango Chapter 40:Characterizing God in His/Our Own Image Stuart Lasine PART IV: THE NATURAL, SOCIAL, AND CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPES OF BIBLICAL STORY WORLDS Chapter 41:Reading the Landscape in Biblical Narrative Norman C. Habel Chapter 42:Sustenance and Survival in Biblical Narrative Jennifer Koosed Chapter 43:Displacement and Diaspora in Biblical Narrative Martien Halvorson-Taylor Chapter 44:Narrativizing Empire in the Biblical World Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. and Tat-siong Benny Liew Chapter 45:The Social Worlds of Biblical Narrative Linda Dietch Chapter 46:The Economic Politics of Biblical Narrative Roland Boer Chapter 47:Narrative Deliberations in Biblical Politics Mark G. Brett Chapter 48:Biblical Lamentations and Singing the Blues Daniel Smith-Christopher PART V: ON READING Chapter 49:Culture Tricks in Biblical Narrative Jione Havea and Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon Chapter 50:Global Thefts of Biblical Narrative Gerald West Chapter 51:The Commanding Faces of Biblical Stories Gary A. Phillips
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...offer helpful surveys of the current state of study of bibical narratives in all its variety, many instructive case studies and some fresh proposals worth pondering on.
"...offer helpful surveys of the current state of study of bibical narratives in all its variety, many instructive case studies and some fresh proposals worth pondering on." -- Christoph Stenschke, Old Testament Essays "offer helpful surveys of the current state of study of biblical narratives in all its variety, many instructive case studies and some fresh proposals worth pondering ... the volume is a helpful travel companion for all who engage biblical narratives and want to note how they are read these days in the North American academic space." -- Christoph Stenschke, Journal of Gospels and Acts Research "Far from falling into jargonistic parochialisms, the specialist expertise on display here demonstrates the best that biblical studies has to offer. For a volume of this size and with such a high number of contributors, the consistency in style and structure across chapters is impressive... The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative will function as an ideal teaching tool to introduce students to scholarly debates and to biblical texts. It will also serve scholars as an indispensable and inspiring guide to scholarship, interpretations, and directions of research." --Hannah M. Strømmen, Review of Biblical Literature "Fewell has gathered an exceptional cast of contributors, notable not only for their individual accomplishments but also for their impressive diversity as a collective... Overall, I found this handbook to be a stimulating read in sequence and a helpful resource to keep handy on my shelf for future reference." --Timothy McNinch, Religious Studies Review "This collection of essays constitutes a broad and comprehensive introduction to the field of so-called 'new' or 'postclassical' biblical narrative criticism. ... this volume is first and foremost a major tool for further study, in line with the tradition of the Oxford Handbooks series." -- H. Debel, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses
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Selling point: Comprehensive coverage of biblical narrative Selling point: Innovative biblical interpretation Selling point: Transdisciplinary approaches to reading the Bible
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.
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Selling point: Comprehensive coverage of biblical narrative Selling point: Innovative biblical interpretation Selling point: Transdisciplinary approaches to reading the Bible

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ISBN
9780190915766
Publisert
2018
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Oxford University Press Inc
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1062 gr
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244 mm
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170 mm
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33 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
658

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Biographical note

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.