Song and Story in Biblical Narrative: The History of a Literary Convention in Ancient Israel (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature)
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... a book which asks and answers a new, interesting question, using a rich range of biblical and humanistic methodologies. -- Journal of Biblical Literature This book examines a literary form within the Bible that has slipped through the cracks of modern scholarship: the mixing of song and story in biblical narrative. Journeying from ancient Egyptian battle accounts to Aramaic wisdom texts to early retellings of biblical tales in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish-Hellenistic literature, and rabbinic midrash, Steven Weitzman follows the history of this form from its origins as a congeries of different literary behaviors to its emergence as a self-conscious literary convention.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0253332362
ISBN13:9780253332363
Release Date:October 1997
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"
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