Reading the Bible as Literature

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Reading the Bible as Literature

Author: Jeanie C. Crain

Publisher: Polity

ISBN: 9780745635071

Category: Religion

Page: 256

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"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 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." -- Back cover.
Reading the Bible as Literature
Language: un
Pages: 256

Reading the Bible as Literature

Authors: Jeanie C. Crain
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-09 - Publisher: Polity

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