The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha / Laura Feldt.

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: More Things-Marvels, Monsters, Miracles; Fantasy and Religion in Interaction; Selection of Material; Contentions and Contribution; A Reader's Guide to the Book; 1 Fields of Fantasy; Fantasy and Religion-Previous Work; Ambiguous Response: Exegetical Interpretations of Exodus' Fantastic Elements; Conclusion; 2 Fantasy and Religious Narrative: Theory and Strategy; Fantasy Narrative-Ancient and Timeless or Inherently Modern?; Fantasy Theory as a Perspective; Reading Hebrew Bible Literature.

3 Marvels, Magic and Mystery: Reading the Fantastic in the Exodus NarrativePhantasmagenesis-Ethnogenesis: Analyses; Mysterious Fruitfulness; Ambivalent Coincidence-Strange Identity; What Was Your Name Again? Revelation-Mystification; Magic, Mutability, Belief in Exodus 4; An Attack from Above-and a Bloody Release (I) (Exod. 4:24-26); Dayenu-or Fantastic Excess in Exodus 5-6; Heightened Hypertrophy in Exodus 7-11; An Attack from Above-and a Bloody Release (II); Dreadful of Radiance, Worker of Wonder; Locus Transformationis.

4 Between Wonder and Doubt: Fantastic Strategies, Their Effects and Status in the Exodus NarrativeNegotiations of the Status of the Phantasms; Tracing a Fantastic Effect; 5 Exodus as Mnemo-Fantasy: The Functions of the Fantastic in the Exodus Narrative; Introduction; Mnemonic Techniques, the Fantastic and the Levels of Narration; Narrative Integration, Ritual and Mnemonic Practices; Memory and the Fantastic in Exodus; Cultural Memory-Autobiographical Memory; Fantasy Functions; 6 From Ethnogenesis to Everyday Life: Contextualizing the Fantastic in Hebrew Bible Narrative.

Narrating the ExtraordinaryWhat Is the Length of YHWH's Hand? Numbers 11-14; Where Are All His Wonders Now? Judges 6-8; Prophets in the Perilous Realm: Elijah and Elisha; Hic sunt dracones: The Fantastic Element Narrative; 7 Es spukt ...-The Fantastic in Religious Narrative; The Fantastic in Hebrew Bible Religious Narrative; Religious Reception and Broader Contexts-A Discussion; The Fantastic and Religious Narrative-Towards a Broadening of the Perspective; ... between Heaven and Earth; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors.

''The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha'' examines the astonishing array of marvels, monsters, and magic depicted in the Hebrew Bible. These stories - with the Exodus narrative at their centre - offer ambiguity and uncertainty, encouraging reflection and doubt as much as belief and meaningfulness. Aiming to discover - rather than explain away - the power of these stories, the book argues for the need to incorporate destabilization, disorientation, and ambiguity more strongly into theories of what religious narrative is and does.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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