Informed by literary theory and Homeric scholarship as well as biblical                  studies, Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode sheds new light on the                  Hebrew Bible and, more generally, on the possibilities of narrative form. Robert S.                  Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic                  in order to account for the "novelty" of biblical prose narrative. Long                  before Herodotus or Homer, Israelite writers practiced an innovative narrative art,                  which anticipated the modern novelist's craft. Though their work is undeniably                  linked to the linguistic tradition of the Ugaritic narrative poems, there are                  substantive differences between the bodies of work. Kawashima views biblical                  narrative as the result of a specifically written verbal art that we should                  counterpose to the oral-traditional art of epic. Beyond this strictly historical                  thesis, the study has theoretical implications for the study of narrative,                  literature, and oral tradition.Indiana Studies in Biblical                  Literature -- Herbert Marks, General Editor

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