Biblical Narrative And The Death Of The Rhapsode (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780253344779
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Christian theology; Jewish Studies; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Judaism - General; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Bible; Criticism, Narrative; Narration in the Bible
Description: "Informed by literary theory and Homeric scholarship as well as biblical studies, Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode sheds new light on the Hebrew Bible and, more generally, on the possibilities of narrative form. Robert S.

Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic in order to account for the "novelty" of biblical prose narrative."--Jacket.