Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Jeanie C. Crain Издательство: Страниц: 256 ISBN: 9780745635088
Описание
"Dr Crain?s book offers undergraduates an invaluable means of studying the biblical texts, systematically demonstrating how applying a host of different literary techniques can help illuminate the biblical writers? message. By analyzing the use of such rhetorical devices as image, metaphor, archetype, narration, and character portrayal, Dr Crain equips students to interpret the Bible responsibly and effectively." Stephen Harris, California State University, Sacramento "Reading the Bible as Literature has three overarching virtues in addition to its myriad individual insights into both literature and the Bible: it is a comprehensive introduction to the literary forms of the Bible; it is wonderfully systematic in its approach to the material; it is copious in its coverage of published scholarship on the Bible as literature." Leland Ryken, Wheaton College "Reading the Bible as Literature is a solid and sure introduction to the field. Crain hits all the bases here....
