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Toward a grammar of biblical poetics : tales of the prophets / Herbert Chanan Brichto

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992Description: xv, 298 p. : map; 25 cmISBN:
  • 97801950691120195069110
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS1171.2  .B75 1992
Contents:
Part I: On poetics -- 1. Introduction -- Foci of literary analysis -- Categories of interpretation: Narrative genre -- Factors in interpretation: Metaliterary conventions -- Figures of speech -- 2. Preface to the exegetical essays -- Part II: Exegetical essays: Tales of the prophets -- 3. "And much cattle": YHWH's last words to a reluctant prophet -- 4. The worship of the golden calf: Exemplar of biblical idolatry -- 5. Tales of Elijah -- 6. The prophets of Ahab's wars -- 7. Tales of Elisha and others -- 8. Poetical resume: Signs literal and metaphoric, prescribed and proscribed -- 9. Retrospect and prospect.
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Part I: On poetics -- 1. Introduction -- Foci of literary analysis -- Categories of interpretation: Narrative genre -- Factors in interpretation: Metaliterary conventions -- Figures of speech -- 2. Preface to the exegetical essays -- Part II: Exegetical essays: Tales of the prophets -- 3. "And much cattle": YHWH's last words to a reluctant prophet -- 4. The worship of the golden calf: Exemplar of biblical idolatry -- 5. Tales of Elijah -- 6. The prophets of Ahab's wars -- 7. Tales of Elisha and others -- 8. Poetical resume: Signs literal and metaphoric, prescribed and proscribed -- 9. Retrospect and prospect.

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