Song and Story in Biblical Narrative The History of a Literary Convention in Ancient Israel |
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| Author:
| Weitzman, Steven |
| Series title: | Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-33236-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1997 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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.."". a book which asks and answers a new, interesting question, using a rich range of biblical and humanistic methodologies."" -- Journal of Biblical Literature
This book examines a literary form within the Bible that has slipped through the cracks of modern scholarship: the mixing of song and story in biblical narrative. Journeying from ancient Egyptian battle accounts to Aramaic wisdom texts to early retellings of biblical tales in the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
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.."". a book which asks and answers a new, interesting question, using a rich range of biblical and humanistic methodologies."" -- Journal of Biblical Literature
This book examines a literary form within the Bible that has slipped through the cracks of modern scholarship: the mixing of song and story in biblical narrative. Journeying from ancient Egyptian battle accounts to Aramaic wisdom texts to early retellings of biblical tales in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, and rabbinic midrash, Steven Weitzman follows the history of this form from its origins as a congeries of different literary behaviors to its emergence as a self-conscious literary convention.