Background

David Jobling was born on September 3, 1941. He is the son of David Jobling II.

Career

David Jobling has brought structuralist approaches to bear on the Hebrew Bible in his six essays collected in several volumes under the series title "The Sense of Biblical Narrative". In both the earlier and later collections of essays, Jobling employed the techniques of literary analysis of V. Propp, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and A. J. Greimas to study aspects of Old Testament narratives. In the 1978 volume, subtitled "Three Structural Analyses in the Old Testament", Jobling deals with I Samuel 13-31, Numbers 11-12, and I Kings 17-18. Jobling’s innovative analytical approach has caught the attention of other biblical scholars. In addition to publishing his own essays, Jobling has edited works by other scholars, among them "Ideological Criticism of Biblical Texts", "On Storytelling: Essays in Narratology", and "The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis".

Achievements

• David Jobling is best known for his works.

Works

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  • Postructuralism As Exegesis

    (From 1974 to 2002, the Society of Biblical Literature pub...)

    1991
  • The Postmodern Bible Reader

    (This is a range of powerful contemporary engagements with...)

    2001
  • The Sense of Biblical Narrative: Structural Analyses in the Hebrew Bible

    (These three studies continue the methods and aims of Volu...)

    1986
  • On Story-Telling: Essays in Narratology

    (This is a readable and absorbing volume of annotated essa...)

    1991
  • 1 Samuel

    (This is a national autobiography of the Hebrew people. Da...)

    1998
  • Ideological Criticism of Biblical Texts 1992

Connections

Father:

David Jobling

References

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