Biblical Narrative and the Death of the RhapsodeInformed by literary theory and Homeric scholarship as well as biblical studies, Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode sheds new light on the Hebrew Bible and, more generally, on the possibilities of narrative form. Robert S. Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic in order to account for the novelty of biblical prose narrative. Long before Herodotus or Homer, Israelite writers practiced an