The first step to understanding the Bible chronologically is to identify which of the seventy-three books are narrative in nature. The term “narrative” refers simply to those books that keep the story moving from one event to another. The narrative books provide us with continuity, or give us an ordered account of connected events from Genesis to Revelation. Robert W. Jenson calls this “realistic narrative,” which is a particular way of telling a sequence of events which is distinguished from other
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