About the Author

Danna Nolan Fewell is the John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible at Drew University. She has published numerous books on biblical narrative, including Narrative in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 1993) and The Children of Israel: Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children (Abingdon, 2003), one of the first books in the discipline of biblical studies to employ a hermeneutical lens of children and childhood.

Reviews

offer helpful surveys of the current state of study of biblical narratives in all its variety, many instructive case studies and some fresh proposals worth pondering ... the volume is a helpful travel companion for all who engage biblical narratives and want to note how they are read these days in the North American academic space.
*Christoph Stenschke, Journal of Gospels and Acts Research*

Far from falling into jargonistic parochialisms, the specialist expertise on display here demonstrates the best that biblical studies has to offer. For a volume of this size and with such a high number of contributors, the consistency in style and structure across chapters is impressive... The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative will function as an ideal teaching tool to introduce students to scholarly debates and to biblical texts. It will also serve scholars as an indispensable and inspiring guide to scholarship, interpretations, and directions of research.
*Hannah M. Strømmen, Review of Biblical Literature*

Fewell has gathered an exceptional cast of contributors, notable not only for their individual accomplishments but also for their impressive diversity as a collective... Overall I found this handbook to be a stimulating read in sequence and a helpful resource to keep handy on my shelf for future reference.
*Timothy McNinch, Religious Studies Review*

This collection of essays constitutes a broad and comprehensive introduction to the field of so-called 'new' or 'postclassical' biblical narrative criticism. ... this volume is first and foremost a major tool for further study, in line with the tradition of the Oxford Handbooks series.
*H. Debel, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses*

The handbook's strengths lie in its comprehensiveness and diversity. Drawing on the insights of scholars from all over the world, the book essentially covers all the narrative portions of the Bible.
*Isaac M. Alderman, Catholic Biblical Quarterly*

This handbook is a must read for anyone interested in the study of biblical narrative and should form the starting point for many groundbreaking narrative analysis.
*Josef Forsling, Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok*