Tag: hebrew
SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE Book Review Session on “Perspective Criticism” (part 1)
by FRANCIS LANDY Perspective Criticism is a wonderfully enjoyable book, which shows us how the manipulation of the point of view of the reader facilitates identification or dissociation from characters, and thus conditions our emotional and evaluative response. Gary intersperses discussions of films, in which point of view is the result of the combination of… Read More ›
The First-Person Narration in Ezra as a Point-of-View Issue
by MARK BODA Much ink has been spilled over the past century over the controversial shifts in person in the account of Ezra in Ezra 7-10. The account begins in 7:1-11 with a third person account about Ezra which introduces a document written in the first person voice of King Artaxerxes, commissioning Ezra for service… Read More ›
PERSPECTIVE CRITICISM 