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Jesus the Hero: A Guided Literary Study of the Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the fourth of a six-volume series called Reading the Bible as Literature. This volume on the Gospels continues the tradition of the first three in the series by exploring the intersection of the Bible and literature. Ryken enables pastors, students, and teachers of the Bible to appreciate the craftsmanship and beauty of the Gospels and how to interpret them correctly. He goes one step...

The foregoing module has painted a picture of the Gospels as a disjointed collection of diverse material. Unless we can produce a counter movement toward unity, we will experience the Gospels as a bewildering collection of unrelated fragments. Fortunately, there are unifying principles that can make the Gospels manageable. First, the Gospels have a unifying central character and hero. Everything revolves around Jesus. Most of the events, all of the discourses, and all of
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