An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Biblical Narrative Studies and Overall Construction Framework: A Review of Liu Hongyi's Studies on Biblical Narration

Studies on Biblical Narration is Professor Liu Hongyi's recent monograph. This book intends to break with conventional Bible studies and to sort out the inner system and constructive rules of the Hebrew Bible for the first time by using biblical narrative as research interface and theoretical framework and integrating interdisciplinary perspectives and resources across literary, religious, and historical studies. It probes into the discourse, motifs, structure, typography, and conventions of the Bible and shows that the Bible as a particular narration whole is not only deep in connotation but also well-knit in structure. It marks serious attempts to render new readings into the origin and nature of the Bible from an interdisciplinary angle. In a sense, studies of the narration of the Bible work to raise a poetic proposition regarding religious culture, and shed some light on the connotation and significance of the poetics.