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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...

story—there is much more involved here than simply the inclusion of a new method (which, in some cases, also largely replaced an older method).2 The growth of the literary approach to the Bible was and is philosophical more than theological or anything else. This shift in biblical interpretation correlates strongly with the sea change that took place in the Western world during the twentieth century. During this century, there are clear examples of change in areas such as science and technology,
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