TY - BOOK ID - 3366372 TI - Closure in Biblical Narrative PY - 2012 VL - 111 SN - 09280731 SN - 9789004218222 9789004221307 9004221301 1283395940 9786613395948 900421822X PB - Brill DB - UniCat KW - Closure (Rhetoric) in the Bible. KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, Narrative. KW - 221.015 KW - Oud Testament: literaire kritiek; authenticiteit; bronnenstudie; Formgeschiche; Traditionsgeschichte; Redaktionsgeschichte KW - Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Sifr al-Takwīn KW - Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) KW - 221.015 Oud Testament: literaire kritiek; authenticiteit; bronnenstudie; Formgeschiche; Traditionsgeschichte; Redaktionsgeschichte KW - Closure (Rhetoric) in the Bible UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3366372 AB - There has been much discussion of narrative aspects of the Bible in recent years, but the ends of biblical narratives – how the ends contribute to closure for their stories and how the ending strategies affect the whole narrative – have not been studied comprehensively. This study shows how the writers and editors of short narratives in Genesis gave their stories a sense of closure (or in a few cases, the sense of non-closure). Multiple and sometimes unexpected, forms of closure are identified; together these form a set of closural conventions. This contribution to narrative poetics of the Hebrew Bible in the light of source criticism will also be valuable to those who are interested in narrative and in concepts of closure. ER -