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Reading the Bible, we often focus more on Scripture’s “point” than on the way the text communicates its message. But in The Bible as Art, Eli T. Evans shows how the Bible isn’t just a collection of teachings or a record of God’s actions in history; it’s also a story that skillfully uses artistic and literary techniques to show its readers who God is and how he works in the world—techniques that...

The Bible is natural in form, but supernatural in substance. Written over many centuries by a hundred or so persons, the Bible is technically an anthology, but one with such a clear authorial voice and sense of purpose that it appears even more unified and self-similar than the work of many modern authors. What follows in this volume is not a literary critique, because I think it unwise to place oneself in the position of judge over such a unique text so as to make it submit to examination. (Who
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