“Fraught with Background”: Literary Ambiguity in II Samuel 11

Interpretation 42 (3):240-253 (1988)
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Narrative ambiguity is a deliberate stylistic device which engages the reader, seizes the imaginative processes, and creates an interaction with the characters of the story that a more explicitly detailed account does not allow to happen

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10.1177/002096438804200303

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