Many parts of the Bible are a loosely organized collection of numerous individual genres and literary forms. Scholars therefore use such labels as the following to identify this mixture: “hybrid form,” “mixed-genre format,” “encyclopedic form,” “anthology,” or” miscellany.” Simply knowing that parts of the Bible fall into these categories helps us to impose a unity on the material. The very mixture of forms imparts unity. This chapter explores the three main forms that make up
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