This article enquires into the role of time in 2 Samuel 11 – the story of David, Bathsheba and Uriah. This is done by first demarcating 2 Samuel 11:2-27a as a narrative unit and determining the scenes of the narrative. An analysis of time, on the basis of the narrative theory of Gerard Genette, then follows. It can be clearly seen in this analysis, amongst other things, that the main theme of this narrative is rather the murder of Uriah than the adultery of David and Bathsheba. A INTRODUCTION The Old Testament contains numerous entertaining, yet in some cases strange, stories. In fact, more than thirty percent of Old Testament material can be described as narrative (Tolmie 1999:1). Logically, it follows that the analysis of narrative texts should be a matter of prime concern for students of the Old Testament. It is imperative that these texts should be read and understood as such, as this will elucidate the meaning of the texts to both the Hebrew scholar and the Old Testament exegete. To do this, it is necessary to ‘understand the basics of biblical narrative – its structure, its conventions, its compositional techniques – in other words, how it represents that which it wishes to represent’ (Berlin 1983:13). In this article, one of these ‘basics’ – the aspect of time – will be addressed. However, creating a model out of the available resources to do a complete narratological analysis is a daunting task (Culler 2004:117), even if just a model for the analysis of narratological time. Such an exercise falls beyond the scope of this article; in any case, this has been attempted with some degree of success many times before. 2 Rather, the focus of this paper will be on

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A narratological analysis of time in 2 Samuel 11:27a

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A narratological analysis of time in 2 Samuel 11:27a

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