The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha examines the astonishing array of marvels, monsters, and magic depicted in the Hebrew Bible. These stories - with the Exodus narrative at their centre - offer ambiguity and uncertainty, encouraging reflection and doubt as much as belief and meaningfulness. Aiming to discover - rather than explain away - the power of these stories, the book argues for the need to incorporate destabilization, disorientation, and ambiguity more strongly into theories of what religious narrative is and does.

"In a field where it is becoming increasingly difficult to say something new, The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha offers the reader a truly novel interpretation of religious narratives in the Hebrew Bible... highly recommended both as a source of insights and as an impetus for exciting new research.'"

Source: Review of Biblical Literature

"An excellent example of how a theory-driven analysis of literary texts can be performed without sacrificing empirical accuracy and integrity, while also providing new takes on literary phenomena that would otherwise remain hidden to the contemporaneous eye.'"

Source: Numen