Perspective Criticism - Softcover

Yamasaki, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620325837 ISBN 13: 9781620325834

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2012

Synopsis

The narrative material of the Bible often presents characters engaged in actions without providing explicit guidance as to how those actions are intended to be evaluated. For example, Gideon lays out a fleece in an attempt to discern God's will, but is this intended as a model to emulate, or is it intended as a picture of desperation resulting from a lack of faith? Perspective Criticism presents a new approach to solving such quandaries, finding an untapped source of evaluative guidance in the point-of-view crafting of biblical stories. Point of view has been the forgotten child in the study of biblical narratives. Now, this book gives this literary concept its due, untangling the array of storytelling devices involved in crafting point of view and demonstrating its power in shaping the very fabric of a story. Because the majority of the point-of-view devices found in biblical narratives are also used in cinematic storytelling, the book includes detailed descriptions of movie scenes utilizing these devices to provide pop-culture illustrations of the workings of point of view.

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About the Author

Gary Yamasaki is on faculty at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (Elkhart, Indiana). He is the author of Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative (2016) and Watching a Biblical Narrative: Point of View in Biblical Exegesis (2007), and is also the founder of the Perspective Criticism research blog.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620325837
• ISBN 13: 9781620325834
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172