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ISBN-13: 9781451482119
Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
By Christopher T. Paris
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Local release date: 01/07/2014
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 176 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]Judaism [HRJ]

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Author Biography
Google Preview: Narrative critics of the Hebrew Bible often describe the biblical narrators as "laconic," "terse," or "economical." The narrators generally remain in the background, allowing the story to proceed while relying on characters and dialogue to provide necessary information to readers. On those occasions when these narrators add notes to their stories, scholars may characterize such interruptions as "asides" or redactions. Christopher T. Paris calls attention to just these narrative interruptions, in which the story teller "breaks frame" to provide information about a character or even in order to direct reader understanding and, Paris argues, to prevent undesirable construals or interpretations of the story. Paris focuses on the Deuteronomistic History. Here the narrator occasionally obtrudes into the narrative to manage or deflect anticipated reader questions and assumptions, sometimes invoking the divine, sometimes protecting a favored character, in an interpretive stance that Paris compares with the commentary provided by later rabbis and in the Targums.; Christopher T. Paris received his Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from Vanderbilt University, completing this dissertation under Jack Sasson. He is a lecturer in biblical studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. His chief areas of interest are narrative criticism, especially of the Deuteronomistic History, and ancient Near Eastern literature.; Google Preview content