PUTTING TOGETHER BIBLICAL NARRATIVE Robert …

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PUTTING TOGETHER BIBLICAL NARRATIVE Robert Alter PUTTING TOGETHER BIBLICAL NARRATIVE suggests that someone has taken it apart, and that has indeed been the principal occupation of formidable intellectual energies in the academic study of the Bible for over a century and a half. Let me hasten to say that if we murder to dissect, we also dissect to understand, and nothing in what follows is meant to discount the impressive advances in the understanding of the historical development of the Bible that have been achieved through the analysis of its text, whatever the margin of conjecture, into disparate components. But unfortunately, scholarly attention, like other forms of human attention, has difficulty in focusing on more than one order of objects at a time, and the concentration on dissected elements has led to a relative neglect of the complex means used by the BIBLICAL writers to lock their texts TOGETHER , to amplify their meanings by linking one text with another.

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