"Not in Heaven": Coherence and Complexity in Biblical Narrative (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature)

Ograve; . . . frac12;Not in Heaven is valuable, not only to professional Bible scholars but to all who love the Book of books. If there are seventy faces to the Torah, as the midrash claims, this book illuminates several more.Oacute;Ecirc;Ntilde;Conservative Judaism Ograve;A stimulating collection.Oacute;Ecirc;Ntilde;Literature and Theology Ograve;In short, this collection of essays offers a variety of literary responses to the problems of biblical exegesis, and contributes positively to the dialogue between the two disciplines. No scholar interested in the Bible as literature can afford to ignore it.Oacute; Ntilde;Cithara Distinguished literary critics and biblical scholars illuminate texts from the creation accounts of Genesis to the parables of Mark, addressing questions such as the interpretive tensions within the text and relationships between literature and ideology. The contributors are Robert Alter, Adele Berlin, John Drury, Bernard M. Levinson, William T. McBride, James C. Nohrnberg, James A. Sanders, Regina Schwartz, Meir Sternberg, and Phyllis Trible.

The papers in this volume derive from this conference entitled The Bible and Contemporary Literary Theory held at Georgetown University April 28-29, 1989.

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Growing out of a conference entitled Literary Theory volume reveal, among other more particularistic points, a fundamental overt disagreement regarding the question of coherence in narrative point of view, i.e. between the assumption or discovery of coherent and unitary narratives and narrators, the critique of this assumption, and the assumption or discovery of its opposite. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)