Representing the Past: A Literary Analysis of Narrative Historiography in the Book of Samuel (repost)
Rachelle Gilmour, "Representing the Past: A Literary Analysis of Narrative Historiography in the Book of Samuel"
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub | ISBN 10: 9004203400 | 2011 | PDF | 333 pages | 3 MB
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub | ISBN 10: 9004203400 | 2011 | PDF | 333 pages | 3 MB
Eschewing both so-called minimalist and maximalist readings, this volume advocates an understanding of the book of Samuel as ancient narrative historiography that must be understood according to its own conception and ideology of history before being judged as a historical source. This study shows how narrative strategies and literary embellishment, unaccustomed in modern historiography, are used to express familiar historical concepts such as causation, meaning and evaluation of the past.