The Bible as literature

John B. Gabel Charles B. Wheeler Anthony D. York First published 1986

About this book

"The latest revision of this comprehensive and systematic text approaches the Bible from a literary/historical perspective and studies it as a body of writing produced by real people who intended to convey messages to real audiences.

Avoiding assessments of the Bible's truth or authority, the authors maintain a rigorously objective tone as they discuss such major issues as the forms and strategies of biblical writing, its actual historical and physical settings, the process of canon formation, the sources of the Pentateuch, and the nature of such biblical genres as prophecy, apocalypse, and gospel."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

11.33 bible study and interpretation
bibel
bible
bible as literature
bible as literature -- textbooks
bible (littérature)
bijbel
criticism, interpretation
((das)) dichterische
das dichterische
einführung
literaire structuur
literarischer stil
literatur
literaturwissenschaft
religiao (livros sagrados)
religious literature
textbooks