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Sodom and Gomorrah: History and Motif in Biblical Narrative is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to Weston W. Fields, biblical narrative is didactic socio-religious commentary on human experience, reflected in history, and that such history is a way of describing the conceptual universe of the ancient authors. Biblical narrative is strikingly free of abstract formulations but encapsulates abstract reflections, within recurring literary motifs, and by the reporting of historical...

Before proceeding, it is necessary to discuss the term ‘motif (already employed above) which seems best suited to define recurring phenomena shared by the narratives concerning Sodom, Gibeah, and Jericho. The considerable variation in the definition and use of this term attests to some difficulties in establishing its precise meaning.28 Encompassing the primary ways in which ‘motif’ is used in modern literature (for it is a rather recent term), the OED defines it as ‘a recurrent
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