Shimon Bar-Efrat

Shimon Bar-Efrat

Shimon Bar-Efrat (* 1929 in Arnhem , † 2010 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli biblical scholar. His name ( Hebrew שמעון בר-אפרת) is mostly quoted as Shimon Bar-Efrat .

Life

Bar-Efrat had survived in hiding as a youth during the German occupation of the Netherlands . After his alias in 1950, he lived in Jerusalem. He studied at the Hebrew University and received his doctorate in 1975. In 1979, the original edition of "How the Bible Tells" appeared, which became a classic of narrative text analysis. Until 1990, Bar-Efrat headed the Bible Department of the Hebrew University Secondary School.

Teaching

Shimon Bar-Efrat's books, initially written in New Hebrew , made the “narratological-philological” interpretation of the Bible known in English translation and, relatively late, also in German translation, which combines literary and classical-narratological approaches. Bar-Efrat was a representative of the Close Reading . His approach is comparable to Eberhard Lämmert , Baufformen des Narrens .

See also

Narrative exegesis

Works

• As the Bible tells: Understanding Old Testament texts as literary works of art . Gütersloh 2006 ISBN 9783579052151
• The First Book Samuel , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007 ISBN 978-3-17-019965-1
• The second book Samuel , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009 ISBN 978-3-17-020522-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Barton, J. Cheryl Exum, Martin Oeming: The Old Testament and Art . Ed .: John Barton, J. Cheryl Exum, Martin Oeming. Münster 2005, p. 253 (short biographies of the authors).
2. ↑ Uwe Becker: Exegesis of the Old Testament: A method and work book . 4th edition. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, p. 115 .
3. ↑ Andreas Käser: Interpretation of literature and historical exegesis: The story of David and Bathsheba as a case study . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, p. 90 .