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Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible: Battle Stories and Their Equivalent Non-Battle Narratives

By Joshua A. Berman

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2004
ISBN
9004131191, 9789004131194
ISSN
0083-5889
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (29799252 bytes)
Series
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 103
Pages
xii+244\261
Topic
Religion
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-06-02 11:02:32
Old Testament Commentaries Bible Study Reference C

Description

This volume sheds fresh light upon the phenomenon of narrative doubling in the Hebrew Bible. Through an innovative interdisciplinary model the author defines the notion of narrative analogy in relation to other literatures where it has been studied such as English Renaissance drama and makes extensive critical use of contemporary literary theory, particularly that of the Russian formalist Vladimir Propp. His exploitation of narrative doubling, with a focus upon the metaphorical, reorients our reading by uncovering a major dynamic in biblical literature. The author examines several battle reports and demonstrates how each could be interpreted as an oblique commentary and metaphor for the non-battle account that immediately precedes it. Battle scenes are revealed to stand in metaphoric analogy with, among others, accounts of a trial, a rape, a drinking feast, and a court-deliberation. Joshua Berman offers new insights to the ever-growing concern with the relationship between historiography and literary strategies, and succeeds in articulating a new aspect of biblical ideology concerning human and divine relationship.

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