By Professor Robert S. Kawashima
Trained via literary idea and Homeric scholarship in addition to biblical stories, Biblical Narrative and the loss of life of the Rhapsode sheds new mild at the Hebrew Bible and, extra more often than not, at the chances of narrative shape. Robert S. Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic in an effort to account for the "novelty" of biblical prose narrative. lengthy earlier than Herodotus or Homer, Israelite writers practiced an leading edge narrative artwork, which expected the trendy novelist's craft. notwithstanding their paintings is undeniably associated with the linguistic culture of the Ugaritic narrative poems, there are significant ameliorations among the our bodies of labor. Kawashima perspectives biblical narrative because the results of a in particular written verbal artwork that we should always counterpose to the oral-traditional artwork of epic. past this strictly ancient thesis, the examine has theoretical implications for the examine of narrative, literature, and oral tradition.Indiana stories in Biblical Literature -- Herbert Marks, basic Editor
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