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The Function of Story in the Hebrew Psalter (Hardcover)
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The Function of Story in the Hebrew Psalter (Hardcover)
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Providing balance to the general scholarly trend to focus on the
non-narrative aspect of Hebrew poetry, this book argues that the
Hebrew Psalter does contain stories, and their inclusion in ancient
Israel's worship texts contributes to the rhetorical power of the
psalms in ways distinct from other poetic devices. Rebecca W. Poe
Hays builds on literary theory and biblical studies of narrative to
establish a clear definition of "story" and to identify where story
appears in the book of Psalms. The majority of the book explores
how these story portions of the Psalter-divided into the three
broad categories of retellings of history, testimonies, and
paradigms-function within their larger contexts. Each chapter
includes a discussion of a particular category's general
characteristics, a close reading of representative texts, and an
assessment of distinctive ways each type of story functions in the
psalms in which they appear. These poetic, psalmic stories have the
rhetorical power to draw readers uniquely into narrative worlds and
inspire empathy, to guide readers into particular understandings of
history and teach inductively, and to concretize the abstract and
so shape the beliefs and behaviors of the communities who regard
them as sacred texts.
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