Reading the Bible as Literature : A Journey / Jody Ondich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ondich, Jody, author.

Series:

Open textbook library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Textbooks.

Religion.

Rhetoric--Textbooks.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (699 pages).

Place of Publication:

Minnesota : Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, [2022]

Summary:

The Bible is one of the most published books in human history. It is also one of the most misquoted, misunderstood and misused books in human history. This happens because people are not always aware that the Bible is not a book, it is a collection of diverse writings. The Bible might even be called an anthology, and it will include everything from poetry to genealogy, pithy sayings to architectural mandates, mythology to letters. Knowing what one is reading helps one understand the ideas in the writings. We read letters in the context of who wrote them and who received them. We read sermons understanding the speaker's perspective may differ from the listener's perspective. So this text is an attempt to give historic, literary, geographical and cultural context to a complex and often poorly understood set of materials. This is very much an ebook, and needs to be used in that format. Pdfs and other printed versions will lose a great deal of the content.

Contents:

Introduction to This Text

How to approach reading the Bible

A Timeline for the Bible

The Dead Sea Scrolls

I. Where and how did it all start?

II. The Torah

III. The Prophets: Neviim

IV. The writings: Ketuvim

V. Beginnings of the Christian Writings

VI. The Gospels

VII. The Earliest Christians

VIII. Apocalypse

Contact Me.

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