Israel in Egypt: Reading Exodus 1-2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441165084)

This close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1-2 looks at how the pericope's structure, language, focalization and management of information form its conception and judgement of its events and characters. A coherence of concerns is detectable in Exodus 1-2 with allusions to Genesis and the later chapters of Exodus. One chapter is assigned to each of seven narrative unities and deals in various ways with its narrative problems. The resulting eclectic choice of analytical tools includes the study of Proppian structural functions, repetition, public rhetoric, narrative speeds, order and symbolism.

Author: Gordon F. Davies
ISBN-10: 1441165088
ISBN-13: 9781441165084
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d