Full Description
Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions. The Handbook covers the Bible's narrative literature, from Genesis to Revelation, providing concise overviews of literary-critical scholarship as well as innovative readings of individual narratives informed by a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The volume as a whole combines literary sensitivities with the traditional historical and sociological questions of biblical criticism and puts biblical studies into intentional conversation with other disciplines in the humanities. It reframes biblical literature in a way that highlights its aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to various forms of social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities.
Contents
PART I: OVERTURES
Chapter 1: The Work of Biblical Narrative
Danna Nolan Fewell
Chapter 2: Biblical Narrative Analysis from the New Criticism to the New Narratology
Stephen D. Moore
Chapter 3: Biblical Narrative and the Birth of Prose Literature
Robert S. Kawashima
Chapter 4: New Testament Narrative and Greco-Roman Literature
Austin Busch
Chapter 5: Biblical Historiography As Traditional History
Raymond Person
Chapter 6: Poetry and Biblical Narrative
Tod Linafelt
PART II: BIBLICAL NARRATIVES
Chapter 7: Telling and Retelling the Bible's First Story
David M. Gunn
Chapter 8: The Genesis of Identity in the Biblical World
Danna Nolan Fewell and R. Christopher Heard
Chapter 9: The Story of Exodus and Its Literary Kinships
Kenneth Ngwa
Chapter 10: Blood, Death, and the Holy in the Leviticus Narrative
Bryan D. Bibb
Chapter 11: Becoming Israel in the Wilderness of Numbers
Adriane Leveen
Chapter 12: Remembering Narrative in Deuteronomy
Brian Britt
Chapter 13: The Conquest of Memory in the Book of Joshua
Ovidiu Creang?
Chapter 14: Judging Yhwh in the Book of Judges
Deryn Guest
Chapter 15: (Hi)story Telling in the books of Samuel
Rachelle Gilmour
Chapter 16: The Rule of Death and Signs of Life in the Book of Kings
Keith Bodner
Chapter 17: Narrative Among the Latter Prophets
Patricia Tull
Chapter 18: Divine Rhetoric and Prophetic Silence in the Book of Jonah
Chesung Justin Ryu
Chapter 19: Plural Versions and the Challenge of Narrative Coherence in the Book of Job
Carol A. Newsom
Chapter 20: Reading Ruth, Reading Desire
Stephanie Day Powell, Amy Beth Jones, and Dong Sung Kim
Chapter 21: Bodies, Boundaries, and Belonging in the Book of Esther
Anne-Mareike Wetter
Chapter 22: Warring Words in the Book of Daniel
Terry Ann Smith
Chapter 23: Political Strategy in the Narrative of Ezra - Nehemiah
Donna Laird
Chapter 24: The Patrilineal Narrative Machinery of Chronicles
Julie Kelso
Chapter 25: Time and Focalization in the Gospel According to Mark
Scott S. Elliott
Chapter 26: Narrative Readings, Contextualized Readers, and Matthew's Gospel
Warren Carter
Chapter 27:Witnesses for the Defense in the Gospel of Luke
Abraham Smith
Chapter 28:The Acts of the Apostles, Narrative, and History
Ruben Rene Dupertuis
Chapter 29:The Narrative Identities of the Gospel of John
Francisco Lozada, Jr.
Chapter 30:Shifting Biblical Parables
Robert Paul Seesengood
Chapter 31:Narrative, Metanarrative, and the Letters of Paul Melanie
Johnson-DeBaufre
Chapter 32:Narrative Technique in the Book of Revelation
David Barr
PART III: THE BIBLE AND BODIES
Chapter 33:Plotting Bodies in Biblical Narrative
Jeremy Schipper
Chapter 34:Reading Biblical Women Matters
Judith E. McKinlay
Chapter 35:Adam and the Making of Masculinity
Eric Thurman
Chapter 36:Children in Biblical Narrative and Childist Interpretation
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins and Julie Faith Parker
Chapter 37:Reading Others as the Subject(s) of Biblical Narrative
Robert D. Maldonado
Chapter 38:Animating the Bible's Animals
Ken Stone
Chapter 39:Sex and Sexuality in Biblical Narrative
Dora Mbuwayesango
Chapter 40:Characterizing God in His/Our Own Image
Stuart Lasine
PART IV: THE NATURAL, SOCIAL, AND CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPES OF BIBLICAL STORY WORLDS
Chapter 41:Reading the Landscape in Biblical Narrative
Norman C. Habel
Chapter 42:Sustenance and Survival in Biblical Narrative
Jennifer Koosed
Chapter 43:Displacement and Diaspora in Biblical Narrative
Martien Halvorson-Taylor
Chapter 44:Narrativizing Empire in the Biblical World
Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. and Tat-siong Benny Liew
Chapter 45:The Social Worlds of Biblical Narrative
Linda Dietch
Chapter 46:The Economic Politics of Biblical Narrative
Roland Boer
Chapter 47:Narrative Deliberations in Biblical Politics
Mark G. Brett
Chapter 48:Biblical Lamentations and Singing the Blues
Daniel Smith-Christopher
PART V: ON READING
Chapter 49:Culture Tricks in Biblical Narrative
Jione Havea and Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon
Chapter 50:Global Thefts of Biblical Narrative
Gerald West
Chapter 51:The Commanding Faces of Biblical Stories
Gary A. Phillips
