Representation in Old Testament Narrative TextsThis work focuses on the literary conventions of narrative texts in the Hebrew Bible, in particular the mode of representation in the book of Judges. The theory of integrational semantics, developed by Benjamin Hrushovski, is systematized to form a theoretical framework within which representation is conceptualized. The author suggests a novel reading of the Judges-narratives to demonstrate particular conventions of representation. The notions of paradoxality, perspectivity and juxtaposition are used to demonstrate the potential value of types of logic, alternative to modernist logic, in reading ancient Hebrew narratives. A hypothetical representeme is constructed for the book of Judges to make it clear that the mode of representation is neither mimesis nor historiography, but narrative, representing by convention and not by correspondence to history. |
Contents
I Presuppositions | 1 |
II Towards a Theory of Representation | 9 |
III A Theory of Integrational Semantics | 33 |
IV Representation in the Book of Judges | 59 |
V Towards a Representeme for the Book of Judges | 145 |
VI Concluding Remarks | 169 |
Bibliography | 175 |
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Biblical Interpretation Series | 195 |
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