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Symbols and Reality: A Guided Study of Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Visionary Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the fifth of a six-volume series called Reading the Bible as Literature. In this volume, the author not only explores the intersection of the Bible and literature, but he also shows pastors, students, and teachers of the Bible how to appreciate the craftsmanship of visionary literature and prophetic oracles and how to interpret them correctly. Dr. Ryken goes one step further than merely...

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a preliminary overview of the three major literary forms covered in this book—prophecy, apocalypse, and visionary literature. My aim is to give the proverbial “lay of the land,” treating the three forms more as categories or branches of literature than genres, though it is not inaccurate to call them “genres.” Later chapters in this book scrutinize the specific genres that make up these parts of the
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