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After almost two centuries of historical criticism, biblical scholarship has recently undergone major shifts, most notably toward the literary study of the Bible. Much germinal criticism has taken as its primary focus narrative texts of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament). This study provides a lucid guide to the interpretive possibilities of this movement. Attempting to be both theoretical and...

‘Reading for the plot’, we learned somewhere in the course of our schooling, is a low form of activity.… Plot has been disdained as the element of narrative that least sets off and defines high art—indeed, plot is that which especially characterizes popular mass-consumption literature: plot is why we read Jaws, but not Henry James. And yet … [plot] is the very organizing line, the thread of design, that makes narrative possible because
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