A Study on the Truthfulness of Narrative in Old Testament Historiography
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This work has made a study about the question of whether narrative in Old Testament historiography is historically truthful and reliable. According to Gadamer and Ricoeur, the historical narrative of the Old Testament is an imaginative and figurative act which seeks to configure human time and action in a meaningful way with narrative structure. Furthemore, narrative in the Old Testament contains a lot of literary devices such as plot, selectivity, suggestive detail, repetition of motifs or key words, and so on. Because of this nature of narrativity, many scholars argued that the historical narrative of the Old Testament is fictional in nature. However, it is more plausible that the narrator uses such literary devices to show the significance of historical events. Indeed, literary techniques in narrative help the reader to grasp the main points which the narrator attempts to convey. Therefore, the literary devices of narrative including rhetorical structure are not simply a fictional addition to historical events, but a tool with which the narrator displays the relations of historical events and highlight the main points revealed in the relations. These observations have gained more credence from our treatment of two examples of how the historical narratives of the Old Testament work. In conclusion, narrative in Old Testament contains historically trustworthy sources with its literary structures.
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This work has made a study about the question of whether narrative in Old Testament historiography is historically truthful and reliable. According to Gadamer and Ricoeur, the historical narrative of the Old Testament is an imaginative and figurative act which seeks to configure human time and action in a meaningful way with narrative structure. Furthemore, narrative in the Old Testament contains a lot of literary devices such as plot, selectivity, suggestive detail, repetition of motifs or key words, and so on. Because of this nature of narrativity, many scholars argued that the historical narrative of the Old Testament is fictional in nature. However, it is more plausible that the narrator uses such literary devices to show the significance of historical events. Indeed, literary techniques in narrative help the reader to grasp the main points which the narrator attempts to convey. Therefore, the literary devices of narrative including rhetorical structure are not simply a fictional addition to historical events, but a tool with which the narrator displays the relations of historical events and highlight the main points revealed in the relations. These observations have gained more credence from our treatment of two examples of how the historical narratives of the Old Testament work. In conclusion, narrative in Old Testament contains historically trustworthy sources with its literary structures.
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