Biblical
it uses little description: 
modern narratives full of description of people and places... What did Jesus or Abraham look like?
it offers little evaluation:
we are seldom told a character's motives, 
or what the writer (or God) think about events
Auerbach said BN is:
"fraught with background"
 
this means that hearers must process what they see and hear and evaluate actions 
- rather as we do in real life  
 
although it is sparse, BN prefers "direct speech"
to reporting conversations - this enhances the 
feeling of being a camera tracking the action
Is
"narrative is the recounting of a series of facts or events 
and the establishing of some connection between them."
(1.A. Ross in R. Fowler (Ed.), A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms)
narration is the act of recounting 
such a series of events
 
 Narrative
 sparse
engages 
On the other hand, the externalization of only so much of the phenomena as is necessary for the purpose of the narrative, all else left in obscurity; the decisive points of the narrative alone are emphasized, what lies between is nonexistent; time and place are undefined and call for interpretation; thoughts and feeling remain unexpressed, are only suggested by the silence and the fragmentary speeches; the whole, permeated with the most unrelieved suspense and directed toward a single goal (and to that extent far more of a unity), remains mysterious and 'fraught with background.'
                                                                                         Auerbach p.11-12
hearers
causes us to "read ourselves" as we hear the story
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