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The study of the Bible has long included a literary aspect with great attention paid not only to what was written but also to how it was expressed. The detailed analysis of biblical books and passages as written texts has benefited from the study of literature in classical philology, ancient rhetoric, and modern literary criticism. Literary Approaches to the Bible introduces the various ways the...

beginning students of the Bible, but it is just a tool like any other.5 In any situation, one tool will work better than another, but the skilled interpreter understands that most every tool has its proper use. Thus it is both true and not true that the literary approach to the Bible goes back to the time of the early church. One chapter in this volume will introduce you to the ancient art of rhetoric. This interpretive method existed long before the writing of the NT, and it comprises one of the
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