Tag: rhetoric
S.B.L. Book Review Session on “Perspective Criticism” (part 6): Response to Whitlock Review
by GARY YAMASAKI Matt’s review of Perspective Criticism provides a relatively rare perspective, that of a biblical scholar who is also a literary critic trained in the study of the modern novel. Such a perspective is most welcomed in the discussion of point-of-view crafting, a topic right in the wheelhouse of literary critics, but so foreign… 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 