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How to Read the Bible as Literature … and Get More Out of It is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why the Good Book Is a Great Read If you want to rightly understand the Bible, you must begin by recognizing what it is: a composite of literary styles. It is meant to be read, not just interpreted. The Bible’s truths are embedded like jewels in the rich strata of story and poetry, metaphor and proverb, parable and letter, satire and symbolism. Paying attention to the literary form of a...

events to a full account of how the events occurred, the closer a story is to the detailed end of the spectrum, the more justified we are in approaching it with the interpretive tools outlined in this chapter. Whenever a biblical storyteller goes beyond the documentary impulse to record what happened and proceeds to describe how it happened, he thereby signals that he wishes us, the readers, to share an experience, perhaps a prolonged experience, with
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