Patterns of Destiny: Narrative Structures of Foundation and Doom in the Hebrew Bible

includes index and biblioraphy

A Note to the Reader about Typestyle in This Volume 5 Structuralism, Proppian Analysis, and Biblical Narrative ......... A Brief History of Structuralism 6 Two Main Approaches to Structural Analysis: The Syntagmatic and the Paradigmatic 7 Structuralism and Biblical Studies 10 The Relationship between Structuralism and Poststructuralism 11 Syntagmatic Approach and Morphological Analysis as the Methodology for This Study 11 Differentiating Propp`s Method from His Model 13 Issues of Terminology: Genre, Tale-Type, Theme, and Motif 16 Proppian Analysis and the Biblical Canon 19 Vladimir Propp and Structuralism: Approach, Method, and Model 19 Criticism of Propp 23 Utility of Propp`s Method for Defining Genre in Biblical Narrative 28 Identifying When an Element Is Variable and When It Is Constant in the Biblical Corpus 28 Applicability of Propp`s Method to a Biblical Corpus 32 Proppian Literary Analysis of Hebrew Bible Narrative 34 Eating and Drinking as Variables in Biblical Narrative ............... Eating and Drinking as Meaningful Literary Elements 40 Eating and Drinking as Variable Elements within Other Constants 44 Constants within Which Eating and Drinking Are Variables 45 Cult 45 Miracle 55 Symbolic Action 59 Dream 71 Etiology 74 Military Leadership 79 Perfidy 87 Misfortune 98 Mourning and Supplication 100 The Unexpected Absence of Eating and Drinking ...... The Absence of Eating and Drinking 108 Eating and Drinking on Life-Cycle Occasions 108 Annunciation, Birth, and Circumcision 109 Weaning 110 Espousal 111 Blessing 112 Commissioning 113 Death and Resurrection 114 Eating and Drinking in Celebration 115 Summary of Eating and Drinking as a Variable within Other Constants 117 Patterns of Destiny: Eating and Drinking as Constants within the Establishment/Foundation Genre ...... Morphology and Genre 118 Methodological Considerations and Sample Analysis 118 Sample Morphological Analysis:Genesis 18:1-19 120 Patterns of Destiny: Establishment and Condemnation 128 The Foundation Pattern in Ancient Sunier 130 The Foundation Pattern Elsewhere in the AncientNear East 134 Patterns of Destiny: Establishment 141 Patterns of Destiny: Eating and Drinking as Constants within the Condemnation/Doom Genre ......... Accounts of Doom in the Hebrew Bible 153 Doom of King and Dynasty 154 Condemnation of the North and the South 156 Elaborated but Clear Morphological Examples 158 Jacob: Ascendance through Guile 158 Inanna: Ascendance through Guile 160 Ruth: Establishment of the Line of David 161 Haman: Doom of a Villain 162 Sennacherib: Doom of an Enemy of Israel 163 The Doom Pattern in Accounts of Paradise 164 The Paradise Account in the Hebrew Bible 165 A Sumerian Account of Paradise 166 An Akkadian Account of Paradise Lost 167 Akkadian Accounts of Human Mortality 169 Patterns of Destiny: Variations and Adaptations ............. Ellipses, Transpositions, and Reversals in Patterns of Destiny 173 An Allusion to the Foundation Pattern 174 Ancient Near Eastern Parallels 175 Biblical Allusion to Ancient Near Eastern Parallels 176 Allusions and References to the Doom Pattern 177 Condemnation of Noah 177 Condemnation of Jeroboam, First King of the North 178 Condemnation of Ben-hadad of Aram 180 Saul: Doom of Dynasty and Condemnation to Death 181 Solomon`s Anointing and the Doom of an Attempted Accession 183 Inversion and Other Variations 185 Gideon`s Call 186 Annunciation of Samson`s Birth 188 Morphological Reversals and the Reversal of Expectations 189 Jacob`s Descent to Egypt 189 Nehemiah Rebuilds Jerusalem 190 Saul`s Reversals 191 Doom of the United Kingdom 193 Doom of the Northern Kingdom 1