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- Title: Point of View in a Gospel Story: What Difference Does It Make? Luke 19:1-10 As a Test Case.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 222 KB
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Within NT narrative criticism, the study of point of view has been less fruitful than the study of any other major component of the discipline. This should not be surprising, for while literary concepts such as plot and character are widely recognized and understood, the literary concept of point of view is not. Why this lack of clarity? First, there is the unfortunate circumstance that the name of this literary concept is also a phrase used in common parlance, most often with the meaning "opinion, attitude." And although one component of the literary concept of point of view does overlap with this common understanding of the phrase, its several other components have nothing at all to do with opinions or attitudes. Further, the literary concept of point of view does not lend itself to simple explanation; some of its components are straightforward, but others are conceptually complex. These factors have hampered the easy import of this concept into the discipline of biblical narrative criticism. In addition, there has been little effort to explore what difference an understanding of point of view makes to the interpretation of a biblical narrative. A typical treatment of point of view consists of a definition of this literary concept along with illustrations of point-of-view dynamics in a biblical passage. This is fine, as far as it goes. However, it must be asked: "Is this far enough?" In other words, does such a treatment of point of view contribute anything to the interpretation of the passage under examination? It is the contention of this article that the workings of point of view in biblical narratives are exegetically significant. So in the same way that a lexical analysis, or a syntactical analysis, or a historical-cultural analysis can yield insights helpful in the interpretation of a narrative passage, so also an analysis of point-of-view moves by the narrator can affect the exegesis of the passage.
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