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...

A REPUTABLE book on narrative, in a discussion of character in Homer, states that ‘Homer and other composers of primitive heroic narrative do not aspire to certain complexities of characterization which we find in later narratives and which we sometimes think of as essential elements in the creation of characterizations of interest. Characters in primitive stories are invariably “flat”, “static”, and quite “opaque”.’ (Scholes and Kellogg, 164). Since the

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