Narrative

Lying Jews (and the art of biblical narrative)

Hebrew authors, it seems, have a propensity towards the prodigious use of direct speech but rarely reported speech and it seems clear that they were willing to summarise conversations into little speech bubble type reports which they recorded in direct speech.

Read more and I'll try to explain a bit more about the license I think we often forget Hebrew authors are willing to take in their writing.

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