Yairah Amit is Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel, She is the author of Hidden Polemics in Biblical Narrative (Brill, 2000), The Book of Judges: The Art of Editing (Brill, 1999), and History and Ideology in the Bible: An Introduction to Historiography in the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield Academic, 1997).
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Preface The Power of Stories Story Scholars and the Role of the Reader A Biblical Story alongside Biblical Criticism Beginnings and Endings Plot, Structure, and Their Function Creating Characters with Minimal Means Whom to Believe? The Biblical Story and The Use of Time Place, Story, History Inherent and Added Significance The Story and Its Contexts Afterword Abbreviations Notes Works Cited Index of Biblical References