The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative
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
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

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199967728
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 06/29/2016
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 656
Product dimensions: 7.10(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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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