01128nam a2200145Ia 4500008004100000020002900041041000800070050002500078100002900103245009300132260004800225300003100273505062100304650005700925220922s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97801950691120195069110   aeng  aBS1171.2 b.B75 1992  aBrichto, Herbert Chanan  0aToward a grammar of biblical poetics : btales of the prophets /cHerbert Chanan Brichto  aNew York :bOxford University Press, c1992  axv, 298 p. :bmap;c25 cm.  aPart 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.  aBible. Old Testament.Criticism, interpretation, etc.