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The Old Testament as Literature


The Old Testament as Literature | Baker Academic

This first volume explores the importance of reading the Old Testament as literature. Each culture tells its stories and writes its poems in different ways.

The Old Testament as Literature: Foundations for Christian ...

In the first of a three-volume project covering the foundations of Old Testament interpretation, a leading scholar explores the language and ...

the literature of the old testament - Project Gutenberg

The Literature of the Old Testament by George Foot Moore, MA, DD, LL.D. London WILLIAMS & NORGATE HENRY HOLT & Co., New York Canada: WM. BRIGGS, Toronto India: ...

The Old Testament as Literature - Baker Book House

In part 1, dealing with literary theory, Longman investigates how texts create meaning, the history of the study of the Old Testament as literature, and how ...

Forms of the Old Testament Literature, The (19 Volumes) - Accordance

A series of volumes that seeks to present, according to a standard outline and methodology, a form-critical analysis of every book or unit of the Old Testament.

Reading the Bible as literature : r/TrueLit - Reddit

The Book of Job and the Song of Solomon are among the most 'literary' books of the Hebrew Bible. I don't know much about the translations, but I do like the ...

Biblical literature - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible, Canon | Britannica

Biblical literature - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible, Canon: The Torah, or Pentateuch (Five Scrolls), traditionally the most revered portion of the Hebrew ...

Is the Old Testament worth reading (from a literary point of view)?

IMO, absolutely. The old Testament is the only bible Jesus had from which to preach the gospel. The only place where the gospel of God, Abraham, ...

Fiction and Truth in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature

Numerous articles and monographs have explicated how biblical narrative, poetry, psalms, wisdom, law, prophecy, apocalyptic, and epistles should be interpreted.

What are the three main literary forms found in the Old Testament?

According to Jews and Christians, three major categories: The Law (Torah), the Writings (Ketuvim), and the Prophets (Nevi'im).

The Old Testament Literary Gap | Anchorage Grace Church

The last gap we have to talk about is the literary gap. We don't begin to appreciate the interpretive decisions we make each and every day.

An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament

The aim of An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament is to furnish an account, at once descriptive and historical, of the literature of the Old ...

Forms of the Old Testament Literature - Wikipedia

Forms of the Old Testament Literature ... Forms of the Old Testament Literature is a series of biblical commentaries published by Eerdmans. The first volume was ...

ENGL M29A: THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE (OLD TESTAMENT)

Introduces the 39 books of the Old Testament and the Old Testament Apocrypha through lecture, reading, and discussion. Emphasizes literary qualities such as ...

Old Testament Literature: His Story | gu-germany

Old Testament Literature: His Story ... The work of God in relation to humankind begins in the Old Testament. All of the events from humanity's creation up to the ...

The Bible as Literature - Encyclopedia of The Bible - Bible Gateway

Literatures contemporaneous with the Bible contain lyric, didactic, liturgical, and dramatic poetry, epic, law, history, genealogy, biography, shorter narrative ...

The World and Literature of the Old Testament - ABARC

A modern commentary is forced to deal with many mat- ters that would have been unnecessary for those to whom the various books of the Bible were first addressed ...

Reading the Bible as Literature Collection (6 vols.) - Lexham Press

In the Reading the Bible as Literature series, Leland Ryken explores the intersection of the Bible and literature. In the series preface he writes, ...

What Every Book of the Old Testament Is About | Crossway Articles

No book of the Bible consists of a list of ideas. It consists of a myriad of literary techniques and forms. Readers need to be coached to see the forms that ...

Books: Should We Read The Old Testament?

It's a monster book: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, etc. 39 books in all, with “major prophets” and “minor” ones.