SIGNED BY YITZHAK AVISHUR, professor of Hebrew Language at the University of Haifa, with dedication (in Hebrew) to Joshua Blau, professor emeritus of Arabic Languages and Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the former President of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Of 12 chapters in this book, only one was published in English (in 1988), and about half the chapters are translations from Hebrew, and the other half are studies unpublished before. In part I the author discuses two main aspects of Biblical narrative research: the literary structure of the narrative, and the Canaanite, and to some extent Babylonian, background of the tales and the motifs in them. In part II the literary formulae common to the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Literature in general and to Ugaritic Literature in particular are discussed. 230x155mm. 375 pages. Gilt Hardcover and spine. Signed dedication of the author on first whitepage upper corner. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare collection of essays, methodologically orientated to the application of principles and methods of modern literary theory to Biblical narrative, is in as new condition.