The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Overtures The work of Biblical Narrative.......3 Biblical Narrative analysis from the new criticism to the New Narratology.........27 Biblical Narrative and the birth of prose literature .......51 New Testament narrative and greco-roman Literature ...61 Biblical Historiography as Traditional History ...........73 Poetry and biblical Narrative............84 2. Biblical Narratives Telling and retelling the bible`s First story ............95 The genesis of Identity in the biblical World ......109 The story of Exodus and its Literary kinships..........125 Blood, Death, and the Holy in the Leviticus narrative.....137 Becoming Israel in the Wilderness of numbers ..147 Remembering narrative in deuteronomy.....157 The conquest of memory in the Book of Joshua...........168 Judging YHWH in the Book of judges..........180 History Telling in the Books of Samuel ......192 The rule of death and signs of life in the Book of Kings......204 Narrative among the latter prophets..........215 Divine rhetoric and prophetic silence in the book of Jonah ............226 Plural versions and the Challenge of Narrative coherence in the Story of Job.................236 Reading ruth, Reading desire.........245 Bodies, Boundaries, and Belonging in the Book of Esther ...255 Warring words in the book of daniel ........266 Political Strategy in the Narrative of Ezra- nehemiah ....276 The patrilineal narrative machinery of Chronicles.....286 Time and focalization in the Gospel according to mark .....296 Narrative readings, contextualized readers, and matthew`s Gospel...........307 Witnesses for the Defense in the Gospel of Luke .........319 The acts of the Apostles, Narrative, and History...330 The narrative identities of the Gospel of John.....341 Shifting biblical Parables..........351 Narrative, multiplicity, and the Letters of Paul .........362 Narrative technique in the book of Revelation ......376 3. The bible and Bodies Plotting bodies in Biblical Narrative .......389 Reading Biblical Women Matters................398 Adam and the making of Masculinity.........411 Children in Biblical Narrative and Childist interpretation .......422 Reading others as the subject of Biblical Narrative ...........434 Animating the Bible`s Animals.........444 Sex and Sexuality in Biblical Narrative ...........456 Characterizing God in His/Our Own Image ..........465 4. The Natural, Social, and Conceptual landscapes of Biblical story worlds Reading the landscape in Biblical Narrative ..........481 Sustenance and survival in Biblical Narrative ..........489 Displacement and Diaspora in Biblical Narrative ..........498 Narrativizing empire in the biblical World ..........507 The social Worlds of Biblical Narrative ..........517 The Economic Politics of Biblical Narrative .........529 Narrative deliberation in Biblical Politics .........540 Biblical Lamentations and Singing the blues .....550 5. On reading Culture tricks in Biblical Narrative..............563 Global Thefts of Biblical Narrative .......573 The commanding faces of Biblical Stories ........585