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To truly understand God's Word, we must know both  what it says (content) and  how it says it (form). This accessible guide features over 250 alphabetically arranged entries explaining common literary forms found in the Bible. Each entry contains a succinct definition, helpful illustrations, and a representative list of passages where that particular literary form is present. More than merely a...

is a motif that appears in multiple stories in the Bible. Writers of Wisdom Literature regularly use the motif of the two ways (the contrasting paths of good and evil). In the Gospel of John, there are nine instances when a person misunderstands a statement that Jesus utters, making the misunderstood statement a motif in John’s Gospel. 5. Archetypes and type scenes. Motifs merge imperceptibly with the categories of archetypes and type scenes. An archetype is a plot motif (e.g., crime and punishment),
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