Reading Biblical Narrative: A Practical Guide: 1 (Tools for Biblical Study, 1) - Hardcover

Jan Fokkelman, P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9058540014 ISBN 13: 9789058540010

Publisher: BRILL, 1999

Synopsis

This is an enormously instructive and practical hands-on introduction for students of the Bible as literature, by one of the worlds leading exponents of Hebrew narrative technique. Issues covered include: introduction to the art of reading, the narrator and his characters, narrative structure, narrative devices.

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About the Author

Eva Piirimäe, Ph.D. (2007, University of Cambridge), is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Tartu. She has published many articles on Johann Gottfried Herder and the Enlightenment and has co-edited journal special issues on early modern political thought. Liina Lukas, Ph.D. (2006, University of Tartu), is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu. Her research interests include Estonian-German literary transfer, Estonian and Baltic-German literature with focus on the 18th and 19th century. She has co-edited books about political and ecological thinking in Baltic literary culture. Johannes Schmidt, Ph.D. (2000, Hamburg University), is Professor of German at Clemson University where he teaches literature, culture, language, and general humanities courses. He has published on 18th-century German literature, Johann Gottfried Herder, and is the co-editor of the Herder Yearbook.

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9058540014
• ISBN 13: 9789058540010
• Binding: Leather Bound
• Number of pages: 224