Text and Texture: Close Readings of Selected Biblical Texts

The major divisions of the work are:I Narratives and Narratives. The Creation. The Primeval Cycle. The Jacob Cycle. The Prologue to the Exodus Cycle. II Cycles, Speeches and Prayers: Teaching and Transmission, Creation, Torah and Hope, Loneliness and Anguish, Space in Suspension the Pilgrimage III Motifs and other Text-Transformations. The Eden Motif/ The Landscape of Spatial Renewal The Exodus Motif/ The Paradigm of Historical Renewal. Fishbane provides close readings of the text which should enrich both the understanding of the text in question, and the overall process of how to read the Bible.