The Eclipse of
Biblical Narrative offered a richly detailed survey of the ways 18th - and 19th - century theologians overlooked the narrative character of scripture, but fundamentally, Frei argued, there were two main strategies by which modernist (and modernist - influenced) theologians reconstrued scriptural meaning.
The recent ferment in approaches to
biblical study and new forms of criticism such as canonical criticism and
narrative theology give promise of
offering new insights on this subject.