附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-540).
Includes indexes.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Literary Text, Literary Approach: Getting the Questions Straight; Discourse and Source; Fiction and History; Form and Doctrine; The Drama of Reading; 2 Narrative Models; 3 Ideology of Narration and Narration of Ideology; Omniscience Charged and Monopolized: The Epistemological Revolution; The Omnipotence Effect: Control Claimed and Disclaimed; 4 Viewpoints and Interpretations; Point of View and Its Biblical Configuration; The Wooing of Rebekah; Positions and Discrepancies Established; The Movement from Divergence to Convergence of Perspectives
New Tensions and Final Resolution5 The Play of Perspectives; Narrator vs. God; Narrator and Reader vs. God and Characters Spheres of Communication; Three Reading Positions; From Plot to Perspective; From Ignorance to Knowledge; Privilege and Performance; 6 Gaps, Ambiguity and the Reading Process; The Literary Work as a System of Gaps; The Story of David and Bathsheba: On the Narrator's Reticence and Omissions; The Ironic Exposition; What Is the King Doing in the City?; Uriah the Hittite Recalled to Jerusalem; Does Uriah Know about His Wife's Doings? The Twofold Hypothesis
What Does David Think That Uriah Thinks? The Three-Way HypothesisHow Joab Fails to Carry Out David's Order; How the Messenger Fails to Carry Out Joab's Order; The Analogy to the Story of Abimelech and the Woman; On Mutually Exclusive Systems of Gap-Filling: Turning the Screws of Henry James and Others; 7 Between the Truth and the Whole Truth; Foolproof Composition in Ambiguity; The Relevance of Absence; Temporary and Permanent Gapping; The Echoing Interrogative; Opposition in Juxtaposition; Coherence Threatened and Fortified; Norms and Their Violations
From Gapping to Closure: The Functions of Ambiguity8 Temporal Discontinuity, Narrative Interest, and the Emergence of Meaning; Suspense and the Dynamics of Prospection; The Pros and Cons of Suspense in the Bible; Modes of Shaping the Narrative Future; Darkness in Light, or: Zigzagging toward Sisera's End; Curiosity and the Dynamics of Retrospection; Joseph and His Brothers: Making Sense of the Past; Surprise and the Dynamics of Recognition; 9 Proleptic Portraits; Character and Characterization: From Divine to Human; Why the Truth about Character Does Not Suffice
The Art of the Proleptic EpithetEpithets and the Rule of Forward-looking Exposition; 10 Going from Surface to Depth; Character as Action, Character in Action; The Composition of Character and the Limits of Metonymic Inference; Old Age in Genesis; Good Looks in Samuel; 11 The Structure of Repetition: Strategies of Informational Redundancy; Similarity Patterns and the Structure of Repetition; Formulaic Convention or Functional Principle?; Constant and Variable Factors; Verbatim Repetition; Repetition with Variation: Forms and Functions of Deviance; Repetition and Communication: Pharaoh's Dream
摘要:""This... is a brilliant work."" -Choice""[Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which he understands and interprets the strategies of the biblical narratives.... a superb overview... "" -Theological Studies""... rated very highly indeed. It is a book to read and then reread."" -Modern Language Review""... Sternberg has accomplished an enormous task, enriching our understanding of the theoretical basis of biblical narrative and giving us insight into a remarkable number of parti.
