“Our Fathers Have Told Us”: Introduction to the Analysis of Hebrew Narratives (Biblia.com)

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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...

Examples of unified plots: Ruth, Jonah, The Iliad (Achilles’ anger), Il nome della Rosa …; examples of episodic plots: Gilgamesh, Beowulf, the adventures of James Bond, the adventures of Thiel Eulenspiegel (Thijl Uilenspiegel), Robin Hood, The Odyssey, Samson … There are also narratives which are somehow in between. For instance the cycle of Abraham seems at first sight to be an episodic plot. But some threads may connect the different episodes (the promises for instance and especially the promise

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