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When we hear the word genre in the context of the Bible, we may think of categories like narrative, poetry, and prophecy. In recent decades, however, much work has been done in the area of discourse genre, which has some overlap with these traditional categories, as well as some differences. One of the primary scholars in the area of discourse genre was Robert Longacre, who created a widely used...

Robert Longacre, who created a widely used classification schema for discourse genres. While there is plenty of disagreement over what constitutes a “text” in discourse studies, the set of Logos pericopes within Logos Bible Software was a logical starting point for classification into discourse genres. These classifications are searchable and also display in the Information Pane.
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