From Canaanite Epic to Biblical Narrative - Prof. Ed Greenstein

From Canaanite Epic to Biblical Narrative, a lecture by Prof. Ed Greenstein of The Zalman Shamir Bible Department. “From Canaanite Epic to Biblical Narrative“: Biblical prose narrative appears as a highly developed literary form; but it did not come out of the blue.  There is a clear background in Canaanite epic--by which I mean verse narrative about heroes. Scholars have suggested that the Israelites had epic, even though that form does not appear as such in the Bible.  In this lecture clear evidence for Israelite epic is presented, and parts of epics that once existed are identified within Biblical poetry. The Zalman Shamir Bible Department: Bar-Ilan University: