Table of Contents

1 Point-of-View Crafting: An Untapped Source of Evaluative Guidance
2 Spatial Plane of Point of View
3 Psychological Plane of Point of View
4 Informational Plane of Point of View
5 Temporal Plane of Point of View
6 Phraseological Plane of Point of View
7 Ideological Plane of Point of View
8 When the Planes Concur . . . and When They Do Not
9 A Perspective-Critical Analysis of the Butch Cassidy Clip
10 New Testament Case Study: Gamaliel (Acts 5:35-39)
11 Old Testament Case Study: Gideon (Judges 6:36-40)
Bibliography
Scripture Index
Movie Index

About the Author

Gary Yamasaki is Professor of Biblical Studies at Columbia Bible College, Abbotsford, BC. He is the author of Watching a Biblical Narrative: Point of View in Biblical Exegesis (2007), and is the founder of the Perspective Criticism Website (http://perspectivecriticism.com).

Reviews

"An innovative book in eleven chapters, Perspective Criticism aims to renew biblical methodology with a new approach coined as 'perspective criticism'"
-Yves Laberge, Theological Book Review, volume 26, no 1, 2014

"Perspective Criticism: Point of View and Evaluative Guidance in Biblical Narrative by Gary Yamasaki sets out what this methodology means, and shows how it works using two case studies: one from the Old Testament, and one from the New. It is a way of helping to interpret a story where the author gives no explicit meaning to the actions of the characters involved."
-Church Times, 23 October 2015