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Part 1 Strategies for reading: narrative; biblical narrative;historical criticism, literary criticism and the meanings of the text;varieties of interpretation - "Genesis" through 2000 years; similarityand difference. Part 2 Tamar and Judah - "Genesis 38". Part 3Characters and narrators: readers and people; the narrator; thecharacters; reconstucting characters; reconstructing YHWH. Part 4Abraham and Sarah - "Genesis 11-22". Part 5 Designs on the plot:reading for the plot - desire for order; plots and points of view -"Judges 10-12"; fracturing the plot - the codas to "Judges" and"Samuel". Part 6 Jonah and God - the "Book of Jonah". Part 7 The lureof language: repetition and variation; multivalence, ambiguity andmetaphor; reading for the metaphor - "Judges 1"; allusion andintertextuality; reading between words and stories - the house ofDavid. Part 8 Nebuchadnezzar and the three Jews - "Daniel 3". Part 9Readers and responsibility: literature and ideology; the Bible andideology; "Genesis 2-3" - women, men and God.