Interpreting New Testament Narratives : : Recovering the Author's Voice.

• Superior document: Biblical Interpretation Series ; v.169
• Author: Douglass, Eric J.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Interpretation Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)

In Interpreting New Testament Narratives, Eric Douglass examines how narratives function as communication from the author. After locating the text in the worldview of the intended audience, readers create meaning by entering and experiencing the events of the narrative world.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. Reading under Ethics -- ‎1. Writing as an Intentional Act -- ‎2. Reading as an Intentional Act -- ‎3. The Author's Voice and the Reader's Ethics -- ‎4. Assumptions, Implications, and Method -- ‎Chapter 2. Communication: Ordinary and Literary -- ‎1. Ordinary Communication -- ‎2. Narrative Communication: Authors -- ‎3. Literary Communication: Readers -- ‎4. Literary Communication: Authors and Readers -- ‎5. Disjunctions: When Communication Fails -- ‎6. Summary -- ‎Chapter 3. Locating the Text -- ‎1. An Overview -- ‎2. A Two-Self Reading System -- ‎3. Locating the Text -- ‎4. Identifying the Intended Audience -- ‎5. Characterizing Otherness -- ‎6. Summary -- ‎Chapter 4. Entering the Storyworld -- ‎1. What is Narrative? -- ‎2. An Introduction to Identification -- ‎3. Identification and Character Construction -- ‎4. Identification and Attachment -- ‎5. Identification and Investment -- ‎6. Identification and Commitment -- ‎7. Summary -- ‎Chapter 5. Many Characters, Many Perspectives -- ‎1. Strategies for Identification -- ‎2. Engaging Other Characters -- ‎3. Interest Bias and Evaluative Standard -- ‎4. Summary -- ‎Chapter 6. Experiencing the Event -- ‎1. Mental Simulations and Serious Meaning -- ‎2. The Reading-Self and Modal Realism -- ‎3. The Actual-Self and Moderate Realism -- ‎4. The Experience of Event: Letters to Words -- ‎5. The Experience of Event: Words to Sentences -- ‎6. The Experience of Event: Beyond Sentences -- ‎7. Summary -- ‎Chapter 7. Translating Story-Meaning -- ‎1. Communicating Meaning -- ‎2. Translating Meaning: Loyalty -- ‎3. Translating Meaning: Equivalence and Similarity -- ‎4. Translating Meaning: Relevance -- ‎5. Evaluating Validity: the Effects of Moderate Realism -- ‎6. Summary -- ‎Chapter 8. Markan Examples -- ‎1. The Call of Levi (Mk. 2:14).

‎2. Storm at Sea (Mk. 4:35-41) -- ‎3. The Woman with a Hemorrhage (Mk. 5:25-34) -- ‎4. The Parable of the Sower (Mk. 4:3-20) -- ‎5. The Darkening of the Sun and Moon (Mk. 13:24-26) -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Author Index -- ‎Index of Definitions -- ‎Subject Index.