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“Narratology” is a recent method of literary criticism adopted by exegetes for the analysis of Old Testament narratives. The aim of this introduction is to help the student find a way through the forest of new terms used by specialists and to give numerous examples of texts analyzed according to this new methodology. The work also contains, as far as possible, references to the origin of the...

there are several “resumptions”; cf. R. POLZIN, Moses and the Deuteronomist (New York 1980) 94–99 (Five episodes: 3:1–17; 4:1–8; 4:9–14; 4:15–18; 4:9–5:1). For more examples see H. C. BRICHTO, “The Worship of the Golden Calf. A Literary Analysis of a Fable on Idolatry”, HUCA 54 (1984) 1–44 (he calls this technique of resumption “synoptic and expansive narrative technique”; however, some of the examples he gives are questionable); G. C. CHIRICHIGNO, “The Narrative Structure of Exod 19–24”, Bib 68
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