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L. J. DE REGT, J. DE WAARD, and J. P. FOKKELMAN (eds.), Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in the Hebrew Bible (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1997; distributed by Eisenbrauns in the United States and Canada). Pp. x + 270. NLG 75, $45.
Scholars interested in discovering the literary devices and structures of a text are aware of the thirtieth anniversary of Muilenburg's famous manifesto on rhetorical criticism, "Form Criticism and Beyond,"' JBL 88 ( 1969) 1-18; yet this recent collection of essays demonstrates that there is still more work to be done to uncover the vast array of artistic elements found in biblical narrative and poetry. This volume attests to the present task of rhetorical critics, as they ferret out the style in which ancient biblical texts were structured to convey meaning in an engaging and persuasive way. Without a rule book of biblical rhetoric, scholars continue to study and compare elements of style, building a compendium of examples which will one day become the manual of style we await. This volume makes a worthwhile contribution to the growing collection of examples of literary...