Narratology

Alternate Labels

Hermeneutics: narratology
Literary criticism: narratology

Web Links

Key Passages

Reading List

Introductory

Wikipedia: Narratology
Narratological Theology and Homiletics: In search of an hermeneutical foundation for theological inquiry based on a narratological study of Biblical narrative units in their original contexts, with a view toward application in narrative homiletics | Christopher Byron Harbin
Basic introduction to Narrative Analysis & Research (resources) | Anglia Ruskin University

Examples

The first ‘Sign’ of Jesus at the wedding at Cana: An Exegetical Study on the Function and Meaning of John 2:1-12 | Denis S. Kulandaisamy, OSM
Narratorial Situations in the Bible | Lyle Eslinger in Mappings of the biblical terrain: the Bible as Text editted by Vincent L. Tollers and John R. Maier
Lives Jesus Changed: Narratology and Character Studies in John’s Gospel | Simon Vibert
‘Asleep by Grief’ (Lk 22:45): Reading from the Body at the Crossroads on Narratology and New Historicism | Claire Clivaz from University of Lausanne
An Appraisal of the Western and the Indian Narratological Approaches in view of its application on the Old Testament Narratives. With Special Reference to Mieke Bal and K.Ayyappa Paniker | Ayyanethumalayil Jose Bijimon
The Bible as Literature: “Words of Delight”: The Bible as Literature (Part 1) | Leland Ryken from Wheaton College
The Bible as Literature: “And It Came to Pass”: The Bible as God’s Storybook (Part 2) | Leland Ryken from Wheaton College
The Bible as Literature: “I Have Used Similitudes”: The Poetry of the Bible (Part 3) | Leland Ryken from Wheaton College
The Bible as Literature: “With Many Such Parables”: The Imagination as a Means of Grace (Part 4) | Leland Ryken from Wheaton College
Bakhtin Revisits Deuteronomy: Narrative Theory and the Dialogical Event of Deut. 31:2 and 34:7 | David A. Bergen from University of Calgary

Books

“The Bible as Literature: A Critical Escape” by Mieke Bal
Lethal Love: Feminist Readings of Biblical Love Stories by Mieke Bal
The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading by Meir Sternberg

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