Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative is a state-of-the-art anthology, offering critical treatments of both the Bible's narratives and topics related to the Bible's narrative constructions. The Handbook covers the Bible's narrative literature, from Genesis to Revelation, providing concise overviews of literary-critical scholarship as well as innovative readings of individual narratives informed by a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The volume as a whole combines literary sensitivities with the traditional historical and sociological questions of biblical criticism and puts biblical studies into intentional conversation with other disciplines in the humanities. It reframes biblical literature in a way that highlights its aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to various forms of social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities.

PART I: OVERTURESChapter 1: The Work of Biblical NarrativeDanna Nolan FewellChapter 2: Biblical Narrative Analysis from the New Criticism to the New NarratologyStephen D. MooreChapter 3: Biblical Narrative and the Birth of Prose LiteratureRobert S. KawashimaChapter 4: New Testament Narrative and Greco-Roman LiteratureAustin BuschChapter 5: Biblical Historiography As Traditional HistoryRaymond PersonChapter 6: Poetry and Biblical NarrativeTod LinafeltPART II: BIBLICAL NARRATIVESChapter 7: Telling and Retelling the Bible's First StoryDavid M. GunnChapter 8: The Genesis of Identity in the Biblical WorldDanna Nolan Fewell and R. Christopher HeardChapter 9: The Story of Exodus and Its Literary KinshipsKenneth NgwaChapter 10: Blood, Death, and the Holy in the Leviticus NarrativeBryan D. BibbChapter 11: Becoming Israel in the Wilderness of NumbersAdriane LeveenChapter 12: Remembering Narrative in DeuteronomyBrian BrittChapter 13: The Conquest of Memory in the Book of JoshuaOvidiu Creang?Chapter 14: Judging Yhwh in the Book of JudgesDeryn GuestChapter 15: (Hi)story Telling in the books of SamuelRachelle GilmourChapter 16: The Rule of Death and Signs of Life in the Book of KingsKeith BodnerChapter 17: Narrative Among the Latter ProphetsPatricia TullChapter 18: Divine Rhetoric and Prophetic Silence in the Book of JonahChesung Justin RyuChapter 19: Plural Versions and the Challenge of Narrative Coherence in the Book of JobCarol A. NewsomChapter 20: Reading Ruth, Reading DesireStephanie Day Powell, Amy Beth Jones, and Dong Sung KimChapter 21: Bodies, Boundaries, and Belonging in the Book of EstherAnne-Mareike WetterChapter 22: Warring Words in the Book of DanielTerry Ann SmithChapter 23: Political Strategy in the Narrative of Ezra - NehemiahDonna LairdChapter 24: The Patrilineal Narrative Machinery of ChroniclesJulie KelsoChapter 25: Time and Focalization in the Gospel According to MarkScott S. ElliottChapter 26: Narrative Readings, Contextualized Readers, and Matthew's GospelWarren CarterChapter 27:Witnesses for the Defense in the Gospel of LukeAbraham SmithChapter 28:The Acts of the Apostles, Narrative, and HistoryRuben Rene DupertuisChapter 29:The Narrative Identities of the Gospel of JohnFrancisco Lozada, Jr.Chapter 30:Shifting Biblical ParablesRobert Paul SeesengoodChapter 31:Narrative, Metanarrative, and the Letters of Paul MelanieJohnson-DeBaufreChapter 32:Narrative Technique in the Book of RevelationDavid BarrPART III: THE BIBLE AND BODIESChapter 33:Plotting Bodies in Biblical NarrativeJeremy SchipperChapter 34:Reading Biblical Women MattersJudith E. McKinlayChapter 35:Adam and the Making of MasculinityEric ThurmanChapter 36:Children in Biblical Narrative and Childist InterpretationKathleen Gallagher Elkins and Julie Faith ParkerChapter 37:Reading Others as the Subject(s) of Biblical NarrativeRobert D. MaldonadoChapter 38:Animating the Bible's AnimalsKen StoneChapter 39:Sex and Sexuality in Biblical NarrativeDora MbuwayesangoChapter 40:Characterizing God in His/Our Own ImageStuart LasinePART IV: THE NATURAL, SOCIAL, AND CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPES OF BIBLICAL STORY WORLDSChapter 41:Reading the Landscape in Biblical NarrativeNorman C. HabelChapter 42:Sustenance and Survival in Biblical NarrativeJennifer KoosedChapter 43:Displacement and Diaspora in Biblical NarrativeMartien Halvorson-TaylorChapter 44:Narrativizing Empire in the Biblical WorldTheodore W. Jennings, Jr. and Tat-siong Benny LiewChapter 45:The Social Worlds of Biblical NarrativeLinda DietchChapter 46:The Economic Politics of Biblical NarrativeRoland BoerChapter 47:Narrative Deliberations in Biblical PoliticsMark G. BrettChapter 48:Biblical Lamentations and Singing the BluesDaniel Smith-ChristopherPART V: ON READINGChapter 49:Culture Tricks in Biblical NarrativeJione Havea and Monica Jyotsna MelanchthonChapter 50:Global Thefts of Biblical NarrativeGerald WestChapter 51:The Commanding Faces of Biblical StoriesGary A. Phillips