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Introduction | p. 1 |
Toward an Aesthetics of Biblical Hebrew Narrative | p. 1 |
"A Cudgel by Itself Kills" | p. 6 |
A Proppian Critique of Biblical Narratology | p. 6 |
The Emergence of Russian Formalism | p. 7 |
Vladimir Propp and his Morphology of a Folktale | p. 9 |
Proppian Analysis and the Hebrew Bible | p. 12 |
Louis Althusser and the Notion of "Interdisciplinarity" | p. 18 |
Determining Space in Biblical Hebrew Narrative | p. 25 |
Aesthetic Difference within the Hebrew Bible | p. 26 |
Biblical Literature and the Birth of Fiction | p. 30 |
Biblical Criticism and the Category of "Space" | p. 36 |
"How Awesome Is This Place!" | p. 41 |
Jacob at Bethel - Genesis 28:10-22 | p. 42 |
The Hebrew Weltanschauung | p. 46 |
Behind the Smoke and Mirrors | p. 47 |
The Hebrew Bible as Historical Literature | p. 49 |
The Hebrew Bible as Religious Literature | p. 53 |
"Identity Formation" and the Violence of Biblical Monotheism | p. 55 |
Structures of Scarcity | p. 61 |
Narrative Space and the Structure of Creation | p. 67 |
Genesis 1 - Primordial Divisions | p. 68 |
The Ontology of "the Field(s)": From Eden to Moab | p. 73 |
Genesis 25 - Sibling Rivalry | p. 78 |
Determining Space in the Book of Ruth | p. 84 |
Stories within Stories | p. 85 |
Narrative Space and the Structure of Ruth | p. 86 |
Narrative Space and the Plot of Ruth | p. 91 |
Narrative Space and Characterization in Ruth | p. 96 |
"Overcoming Moab": A Spatial Reading of the Book of Ruth | p. 103 |
Conclusion | p. 106 |
Determinate "Space" within the Hebrew Aesthetic | p. 106 |
Endnotes | p. 109 |
References | p. 118 |
Index of Authors | p. 125 |
Index of References | p. 127 |
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