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This illuminating study provides a comprehensive examination of the literary aspects of biblical narrative, which comprises over a third of the Hebrew Bible. The attitudes and interjections of the narrator, the shaping of characters, time and space, the structure of the plot and the style are discussed and illustrated, clarifying the issues raised as well as shedding fresh light on the...

In the examples below, the narrator gives an account of the characters’ inner feelings either independently or in association with information about allied external behaviour. The evidence par excellence of the narrator’s unlimited knowledge is undoubtedly what is reported about God, whose feelings, thoughts, intentions, opinions and judgments the narrator purports to know: And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart (Gen. 6:6). But Noah found favour
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