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Letters of Grace & Beauty: A Guided Literary Study of New Testament Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the third of a six-volume series called Reading the Bible as Literature. As with the first two volumes (How Bible Stories Work and Sweeter Than Honey, Richer Than Gold), the author explores the intersection of the Bible and literature. In this third volume, Dr. Ryken shows pastors, students, and teachers of the Bible how the literary craftsmanship of the epistles leads to a richer...

None of the New Testament epistles is only a personal letter, but in some of them the writer shares a large amount of personal information and personal feelings. In these cases the concept introduced above of overlapping genres is helpful, as the concept of a personal letter merges with other genres. Two genres that often overlap with the personal letter are the family letter and the letter of friendship. In fact, only under special circumstances would we
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