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A Complete Handbook of Literary Forms in the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

order. This handbook has incorporated such technical terms sparingly, but some of them are universal and therefore useful for any Bible reader. For example, what the ancients called inclusio consists of bracketing a passage with the same statement. Literary scholars are more inclined to call it envelope structure. Psalm 8 is structured on this rhetorical device, with identical opening and closing verses. 8. Stylistic traits. There is also a cluster of terms that name features of style that do not fall
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