Poetics for the Gospels?: Rethinking Narrative Criticism

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A&C Black, 2005 M03 1 - 192 páginas
Poetics, the study of the making of literary works, regards the gospels as literature, in contrast to the historical-critical approach. Petri Merenlahti makes the case that poetics offers a vital critical tool to interpreting the gospels. But he argues that poetics must also be 'historical', as perceptions of literary form and value are not fixed, but evolve and develop from one time and culture to another.

Merenlahti provides a comprehensive account of the development and the state of the art of poetics and narrative criticsm. Through scrupulous methodological discussion and detailed analysis of gospel narratives, he also offers a potentially highly productive future programme for historical poetics in gospel studies.
 

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Introduction
1
Part I
12
Are the Gospels Unified Narratives?
31
Do You Understand what You are Reading?
51
Gaps and Ambiguity in Marks Narrative Rhetoric
61
Characters in the Making
79
The Gospel as a Plot
99
A Paradigm Shift
115
A Case
133
Poetics as Myth and Fiction
143
Index of Names
161
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Dr. Petri Merenlahti teaches in the Department of Biblical Studies, University of Helsinki.

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