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Series PrefaceEditors' PrefaceAbbreviations`Introduction'Paul R. House - The Rise and Current Status of Literary Criticism of the Old Testament`Scripture and Literary Criticism'IntroductionDavid J. A. Clines - Story and Poem: The Old Testament as Literature and as ScriptureKrister Stendahl - The Bible as a Classic and the Bible as Holy Scripture`Rhetorical Analysis'IntroductionJames Muilenburg - Form Criticism and BeyondJ. Kenneth Kuntz - Psalm 18: A Rhetorical-Critical Analysis`Structuralist Analysis'IntroductionRichard Jacobson - The Structuralists and the BibleJean Calloud - A Few Comments on Structural Semiotics: A Brief Review of a Method and Some Explanation of ProceduresDaniel Patte and Judson F. Parker - A Structural Exegesis of Genesis 2 and 3`Formalism and Narrative'Introduction1. Methodology: Robert Alter - A Literary Approach to the Bible2. Structure: Shimon Bar-Efrat - Some Observations on the Analysis of Structure in Biblical Narrative3. Plot: Barbara Green - The Plot of the Biblical Story of Ruth4. Characterization: Adele Berlin - Characterization in Biblical Narrative: David's Wives5. Narration: Meir Sternberg - The Bible's Art of Persuasion: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Poetics in Saul's Fall6. Genre: J. Cheryl Exum and J. Williams Whedbee - Isaac, Samson, and Saul: Reflections on the Comic and Tragic Visions`Analysis of Hebrew Poetry'IntroductionAdele Berlin - The Grammatical Aspect of Biblical ParallelismJ. Cheryl Exum - Of Broken Pots, Fluttering Birds, and Visions in the Night: Extended Simile and Poetic Technique in Isaiah`Reader-Response Analysis'IntroductionRobert M. Fowler - Who Is `The Reader' in Reader Response Criticism?Willem S. Vorster - Readings, Readers, and the Succession Narrative: An Essay on Reception`The Future of Old Testament Literary Criticism'Introduction1. Narrative: David M. Gunn - New Directions in the Study of Biblical Hebrew Narrative2. Poetry: Mona West - Looking for the Poem: Reflections on the Current and Future Status of the Study of Biblical Hebrew PoetryIndex of AuthoritiesIndex of Scripture References