ID - 2954045 TI - Narrative analogy in the Hebrew Bible : battle stories and their equivalent non-battle narratives PY - 2004 VL - v. 103. SN - 00835889 SN - 9004131191 9047413687 9789004131194 PB - Leiden : E.J. Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Histoire militaire dans la Bible KW - Militaire geschiedenis in de Bijbel KW - Military history in the Bible KW - Military history in the Bible. KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, Narrative. KW - 221.06 KW - Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese KW - 221.06 Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese KW - Battles in the Bible KW - Wars in the Bible KW - Military history, Ancient KW - Antico Testamento KW - Hebrew Bible KW - Hebrew Scriptures KW - Kitve-ḳodesh KW - Miḳra KW - Old Testament KW - Palaia Diathēkē KW - Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa KW - Sean-Tiomna KW - Stary Testament KW - Tanakh KW - Tawrāt KW - Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim KW - Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim KW - Velho Testamento KW - Bible. Old Testament KW - Criticism [Narrative ] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2954045 AB - This volume sheds fresh light upon the phenomenon of narrative doubling in the Hebrew Bible. Through an innovative interdisciplinary model the author defines the notion of narrative analogy in relation to other literatures where it has been studied such as English Renaissance drama and makes extensive critical use of contemporary literary theory, particularly that of the Russian formalist Vladimir Propp. His exploitation of narrative doubling, with a focus upon the metaphorical, reorients our reading by uncovering a major dynamic in biblical literature. The author examines several battle reports and demonstrates how each could be interpreted as an oblique commentary and metaphor for the non-battle account that immediately precedes it. Battle scenes are revealed to stand in metaphoric analogy with, among others, accounts of a trial, a rape, a drinking feast, and a court-deliberation. Joshua Berman offers new insights to the ever-growing concern with the relationship between historiography and literary strategies, and succeeds in articulating a new aspect of biblical ideology concerning human and divine relationship. ER -