This book examines, in preliminary fashion, the determinate nature of key narrative spaces within the Hebrew aesthetic. It privileges the notion of "narrative space" above other aspects of the text, treating "space" itself as determinate within the biblical text.

Luke Gartner-Brereton completed his undergraduate degree through the Australian College of Theology in 2003 and lectured in biblical Hebrew studies for a time before co-founding The Centre for Theology and Politics, a political think tank established in 2005.

Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Biblical Hebrew Narrative 1. "A Cudgel by Itself Kills": A Proppian Critique of Biblical Narratology 2. Determining Space in Biblical Hebrew Narrative 3. "How Awesome Is This Place!" 4. The Hebrew Weltanschauung 5. Narrative Space and the Structure of Creation 6. Determining Space in the Book of Ruth 7. Conclusion