This book advocates a creative way of reading and aims to familiarize readers with elementary but powerful insights and techniques of narrative art, which have been common currency beyond the confines of biblical studies for some generations.
Narrator, characters, action, hero, quest, plot, time and space, entrances and exits--these are the essential components of all narrative literature. This authoritative and engaging introduction to the literary features of biblical narrative and poetry will help the reader grasp the full significance of these components, allowing them to enter more perceptively into the narrative worlds created…