Untamable Texts Literary Studies and Narrative Theory in the Books of Samuel

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Poetics and Interpretation......................8 A Literary Study of the Biblical Narratives................11 A Close reading of Three Interpretations..........22 Poetics, Narratology, Criticism, and Interpretation ............58 2. The Sense -Governing Internet of Biblical Narratives .................72 The Character of a Narrative - A salient Issues .......78 An Outline of the Present Chapter .............80 The Books of Samuel and the Succession History of David ..........81 The Distinction between different Kinds of Narratives....109 Story and History ..........116 3. Storytelling: Sense and Reference .............129 Three notions of the Reading of Narratives .............129 Gap-Filling and the Drawing of Implications .........148 Literary or Historical Interpretations: A Series of Examples ...........160 The Amalekite Messenger : 2 Samuel I .............179 4. Two Nodes: Narrators and Perspective .................199 The Teller of the Biblical Narratives ..........201 Perspective, Point of View, Focalization ................230 5. Interpreters, Theories, and Texts ...............252 A literary study of Old Testament Narratives.....................252 Narratology and a Non-Literary reading ................256 Storytelling and the web of Life ...........26