Reading Biblical Narratives: Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible

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Eleven
The Story and Its Context

WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE BIBLICAL STORY as a separate link in a chain. Let us now look at the chain as a whole, and how its individual links are incorporated in it. A discussion of the whole and its parts, and the place of the parts in the whole, is especially applicable to biblical stories, since they have come down to us as part of a larger entity, and since the demarcation of the individual parts, not having been done by an author or editor, is left up to the reader (see pp. 14–21 above). We shall also examine how the specific meanings we have discovered conform with the whole.


The Story of Amnon and Tamar

The story of Amnon and Tamar, which we have demarcated between verses 1 and 22 in 2 Samuel 13, is part of the larger story of David’s sin and punishment, which is part of the Book of Samuel, which in turn is part of the Deuteronomistic history,

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Table of contents

Table of contents

  • Title Page iii
  • Contents vii
  • Preface xi
  • One - The Power of Stories 1
  • Two - Story Scholars An J the Role of the Reader 10
  • Three - A Biblical Story Alongside Biblical Criticism 22
  • Four - Beginnings and Endings 33
  • Five - Plots, Structures, and Their Functions 46
  • Six - Creating Characters with Μinimal Means 69
  • Seven - Whom to Believe? 93
  • Eight - The Biblical Story and the Use of Time 103
  • Nine - Place, Story, and History 115
  • Ten - Inherent and Added Significance 126
  • Eleven - The Story and Its Context 138
  • Afterword 148
  • Abbreviations 150
  • Notes 152
  • Works - Cited 169
  • Index - Of Biblical References 181
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