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Reading the Bible as Literature

Reading the Bible as Literature - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jeanie C. CrainPublish date:2010-08-09Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9780745635071ISBN-10:745635075UPC:9780745635071Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Biblical StudiesSize:10.00 x 7.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.3404Product ID:SCB5AXMK9J
Reading the Bible as Literature provides the ideal entry-point to the process of reading, understanding, and assessing what many recognize to be the important and powerful literature of the Bible. Such reading holds potential for helping students understand literature generally and the Bible in itself. The book introduces the tools of literary analysis, including: language and style, the formal structures of genre (narrative, drama, and poetry), character study, and thematic analysis.

The overall organizational structure of the book proceeds incrementally from basic literary elements to higher units of form. Each chapter includes an outline, preliminary considerations that provide background and insight into scholarly debates, and an explanation of the literary qualities of the primary text through specific examples, exercises, and directions for further study.

The book emphasizes the act of reading itself, focusing upon the whole text as it exists in its current form. It invites an experiential entering into and reliving of the Bible's stories, encourages analytical and holistic reading, explores multiple interpretations, and embraces a power of language originating in the mythological, metaphorical, and symbolic. Above all, the book seeks to return the Bible to the common reader and to build in that reader an appreciation for a collection of ancient, literary texts often trivialized by competing theologies or marginalized by a relentless insistence upon fact, science, and history.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9780745635071ISBN-10:745635075UPC:9780745635071Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Biblical StudiesSize:10.00 x 7.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.3404Product ID:SCB5AXMK9J

Jeanie C. Crain, Missouri Western State University.

Publisher: Polity Press

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