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Several literary types and devices are used throughout the text of the Bible, including allegories, parables, psalms, and letters. This glossary defines the types and devices identified in the Tooman Literary Type Analysis of the Old Testament and the Mackie Literary Type Analysis of the New Testament.

— (NT) A narrative account of past events arranged in roughly chronological order often incorporating the writer’s observations on the events and their causes and effects.