Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative (Biblia.com)

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In this classic work on literary criticism, Professor Adele Berlin introduces the colorful world of literary conventions used in biblical narratives. Berlin presents some fundamental guidelines for the sensitive reading and understanding of biblical narratives. Explaining the basics of poetics, she covers the how of the Bible, so readers can better understand what a particular text means. Berlin...

different need in my discussion. Chatman’s will be presented first, since it makes the gross distinctions in kinds of point of view; and one of these kinds (interest point of view) is especially helpful in the discussion of certain narratives. Uspensky’s is a more highly developed scheme and is better suited for the identification of points of view from the actual discourse of the text. This will be taken up in the section dealing with the poetics of point of view. Seymour Chatman (Story and Discourse,

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