...Eyal Segal How Biblical Narratives End: Closure and Segmentation Eyal Segal Tel Aviv University, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics Susan Zeelander, Closure in Biblical Narrative. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xv 1 232 pp. This is a study of how biblical narratives end and of how...

...Joshua Levinson This article investigates the reading dynamics of the rewritten Bible or the exegetical narrative in rabbinic literature of late antiquity. The exegetical narrative is composed of a story which simultaneously represents and interprets its biblical counterpart. Its singularity...

... with a biblical text), all composed in response to works of visual art, in order to attempt an assessment of the possible scope (and limitations) of the undertaking to reflect images in tones. To concretize the idea of correspondence between pictorial and musical configurations, I conclude with a comparative case...

... (e.g., novelistic) or inspired (biblical, Homeric). Here I review the various old-new critical thrusts against epistemic superprivilege (outright denials, partisan judgments, attempted confinements, impairments, replacements, as well as genuine misunderstandings) arisen since my constructive theory...

..., Robert 1981 The Art of Biblical Narrative (New York: Basic Books). 1999 L'art du récit biblique , translated by Paul Lebeau and Jean-Pierre Sonnet (Brussels: Lessius). Bal, Mieke 1977 Narratologie: Essais sur la signification narrative dans quatre romans modernes (Paris: Klincksieck...

..., for instance), and “it changes into an enigma, an abyss, a torment to thought.” The names in biblical narratives force us, with their disjunctive glosses, to enter this abyss. Herbert Marks, “Biblical Naming and Poetic Etymology,” 1995 Poetics Today 31:2 (Summer 2010)  doi 10.1215/03335372-2009...

... this objective is not what animates the expositor of a biblical unity or brings us to accede to the claim made by the in “the Book.” G. Ernest Wright and Reginald H. Fuller have reformulated the title of the Christian version as The Book of the Acts of God (1957). But how would Eccle- siastes get...

... how that attention relates to “the narrative impor- tance of any given object in diegetic space” (56). Hayot illustrates this from Erich Auerbach’s well-known comparison in the first chapter of Mimesis (1946) between Homeric and biblical narratives as lacking and as rich in “background...

... Science 233 Index to Volume 34 639 Herman, Luc, and Bart Vervaeck Masterminding Narrative (Anthony Sanford and Catherine Emmott, Mind, Brain and Narrative) 605 Segal, Eyal How Biblical Narratives End: Closure and Segmentation...

... publications but also in the sources to be translated. This role had deep roots in the historical Christian reliance on Jewish experts and sources for biblical knowledge (Friedman 1983: 23 – 27; Seidman 2006: 133 – 37). Jews The world therefore owes them a very great debt; wherever these Scriptures have...

... Narratology , edited by Ann Fehn, Ingeborg Hoesterey, and Maria Tatar, 27 -38 (Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press). Sternberg, Meir 1978 Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press). 1985 The Poetics of Biblical Narrative:Ideological...

...). 1974 Marcel Proust (New York: Viking). Stendhal 1975 Love , translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale (New York: Penguin Books). Sternberg, Meir 1978 Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press). 1985 The Poetics of Biblical...

... I have seen. Spirituals express hope and liber- ation based on biblical narratives: Go Down Moses ; Freedom, Oh Free- dom. They follow the tradition of the Psalms as a body of intimate and multifaceted dialogues with God. Spirituals quickly gained international rec- ognition at the beginning...

...). Sternberg, Meir 1987 The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Toolan, Michael 2001 [1988] Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction , rev. ed. (London:Routledge). History of Narratology: A Rejoinder...

...), The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading (1985), Hebrews between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature (1998), and La Grande Chronologie (2009). Tamar Yacobi, now retired, has taught in the literature department in Tel Aviv University. She has written...

... University, editor of Poetics Today, and Israel Prize laureate. His publications include Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading and Hebrews between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature ...

... twice, publishing a Hebrew version in 1823 and a Yiddish one in 1824. Although he may have tried to improve on Mendelsohn-Frankfurt’s version, his Hebrew is fairly typical of contempora- ry melitza, in that he overuses familiar biblical proof texts and often creates a pattern of inlaid quotations...

... in their novels. Françoise Mirguet is postdoctoral research fellow at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and is currently teaching biblical literature at Arizona State Uni- versity. She is the author of La représentation du divin dans les récits du Pentateuque: Média- tions syntaxiques et...

... and Temporal Ordering in Fiction (1978), The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading (1985), and Hebrews between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature (1998). Cristina Vatulescu is a junior fellow in comparative literature at the Harvard Univer- sity...

... University, editor of Poetics Today, and Israel Prize laureate. His publications include 262 Poetics Today 22:1 Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading and Hebrew between Cultures: Group Portraits...