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    • Overview

      • Text-oriented hermeneutics; structuralism, poetics of narrative.
      • Story and discourse: realizing the "how" of the narrative texts.
      • Aspects of narrative:
        • Repetitions and cross-textual allusions.
        • Narration and dialogue.
        • Presentation of events.
        • Ambiguity; persuasion.
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    • Comment

      Especially since the last quarter of the 20th century, the Bible has been studied with the help of methods, which developed in the study of literature in general (and modern literature in particular). These methods usually work with the final form of the text and understand the text (mostly narrative) as a self-contained literary universe. It is important to explore the inner relationships between the events and characters of the text. The emphasis here is not on the historical author of the literary work, rather on the "narrator", which is the function derived again from the narrative itself.

      Some of these approaches are based on structuralism and its terminology, other approaches are more intuitive.

      The typical method of these synchronic approaches is the "close reading" of the text.

    • Literature for individual study

      Hayes and Holladay, Biblical Exegesis, 110-121.

      Satterthwaite, “Narrative Criticism: The Theological Implications of Narrative Techniques.”


      For further reading

      Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative.

      Bar-Efrat, Narrative Art in the Bible.

      Berlin, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation.




    • Hayes and Holladay, Biblical Exegesis, 110-121. Archivo
    • Satterthwaite, “Narrative Criticism: The Theological Implications of Narrative Techniques.” Archivo

    • Verifying comprehension

      1. What are some travesties and other cross-textual allusions in the Old Testament? What kind of implicit commentary these allusions make in these specific texts?
      2. Give some examples of biblical texts, in which the literary character(s) in his/her/their speech express
        • same viewpoint, values or evaluation of the events as the narrator
        • different viewpoint from that of the narrator.
      3. What is the difference between the "narrated time" and the "narrative time"?
      4. What are some examples of narrative ambiguity in the OT narratives?
      5. Give an example of Old Testament narrative, where the narrative structure helps to make a theological point.