events that happened to principals within a specified period of time. Moreover, the narrative depicts the principal people embroiled in those time periods by description of the details that constitute the events, and by dialogue among the principals who participate in the process of events. Indeed, in OT narratives, dialogue carries as much of the weight in the depiction of the period as does the description. In the following examples of form-critical exposition, the term “narrative” is held as a
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