Representation in Old Testament Narrative Texts

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-11234-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Hebrew, Band 36, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

This work focuses on the literary conventions of narrative texts in the Hebrew Bible, in particular the mode of representation in the book of Judges. The theory of integrational semantics, developed by Benjamin Hrushovski, is systematized to form a theoretical framework within which representation is conceptualized.
The author suggests a novel reading of the Judges-narratives to demonstrate particular conventions of representation. The notions of paradoxality, perspectivity and juxtaposition are used to demonstrate the potential value of types of logic, alternative to modernist logic, in reading ancient Hebrew narratives.
A hypothetical representeme is constructed for the book of Judges to make it clear that the mode of representation is neither mimesis nor historiography, but narrative, representing by convention and not by correspondence to history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marais, Jacobus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Bibelwissenschaften: Sachbuch, Erbauung, Didaktik

Über Autor(innen)

Jacobus Marais, Ph.D. (1996) in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, is a minister of religion. His field of interest is literary hermeneutics in Old Testament studies and he has published various articles on this topic.