The Names of God: Poetic Readings in Biblical BeginningsOxford University Press, 9 d’abr. 1998 - 480 pàgines This is the sequel to the author's iconoclastic Toward a Grammar of Biblical Poetics (Oxford, 1992), in which Brichto argues for the aesthetic wholeness of the Hebrew Bible, and the consistency of Scripture's preachment on God, nature, and the human condition--in direct opposition to current source criticism, which maintains that inconsistencies within the text support an atomistic reading of multiple authors. In The Names of God, Brichto brings us his "poetic" reading of Scripture to the Book of Genesis. Using contemporary methods and insights of literary criticism, he examines one of the great inconsistencies within Genesis that have led to the supposition of multiple authors--the assortment of terms or names for the Deity, among them Yahweh and Elohim--and attempts to show the appropriateness of certain of these names to the stories in which they appear. He also looks at a variety of other data within Genesis such as genealogies, eponyms, and chronologies, and shows that their poetical function--their variety, ingenuity, and imaginative whimsy--is vital to the structure of the text as a whole. In finding a unity in this diversity of materials, Brichto makes a strong case for the text as the artistic achievement of a single author. |
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Abimelech Abraham Abram altar Amorite ancestor ancient animals appears Arpachshad Beersheba beginning biblical author blessing brother Cain Canaan Chapter conclusion context contrast covenant creation creatures daughters Deity descendants direct discourse divine E. A. Speiser earth Egypt Elohim Enkidu Enlil Enuma elish episode Exodus explicit expression father flood formulation genealogy Genesis Gerar Gibeonites Gilgamesh God's gods Hagar Haran heaven Hebrew human humankind hypotactic Isaac Ishmael Israel Israelite Jacob Japheth Joshua Kasdim kerygma king Lamech land literal literary Lot's male mankind Marduk Mesopotamia metaphor monotheism moral Moses Nahor name YHWH narrative narrator narrator's Noah Noah's noun pagan patriarch pericope person poetic problem promise Psalm question reader revelation Sabbath Sarah Sarai Scripture Scripture's sense Shem sired Sodom sons source-critical species Speiser story Terah Tetragrammaton tion translation Ur Kasdim Utnapishtim verb verse wife word YHWH YHWH's