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12 Feb 12
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deeply influenced by the Bible.
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Western literature
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Dante’s Divine Comedy and Milton’s Paradise Lost
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privatized literature, however, continues to feed off the root of the Christian Bible, but in a more subtle way than the literature of earlier centuries
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plots, characters, ideas, and symbols were derived from the Bible
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In addition, the narrative form
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Erich Auerbach compares the structure of Homeric narrative to the structure of Old Testament narrative
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The Homeric story is found in book 19 of the Odyssey
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general character of Homeric narrative
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generally leaves nothing unsaid, nothing hidden
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setting of every event is meticulously described
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characters’ innermost motives are verbalized
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The story of Abraham and Isaac is told in a very different way
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Little detail about time and place
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demand interpretation
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the story of Abraham is full of suspense
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Abraham’s actions presuppose his past
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thoughts which remain unexpressed
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conscious of, what God has promised him and what God has already accomplished for him
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modern literature
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narrative devices that are used in Scripture
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life-histories are clearly set forth
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Bible demands interpretation
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04 Nov 08
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