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Biblical Type-Scenes and the Uses of Convention Alter I. Introduction A. Background B. Thesis: Through our awareness of convention we can recognize significant or simply pleasing patterns of repetition, symmetry, contrast: we can discriminate between the verisimilar and the fabulous, pick up directional clues in a narrative work, see what is innovative and what is deliberately traditional at each nexus of the artistic creation. II. Problem of loss of most of the keys to the conventions out of which the biblical narrative was shaped. A.

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