The Bible As Literature: An Introduction

by JohnB.Gabel (Author), Charles B . Wheeler (Author), Anthony D . York (Author), David Citino (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $64.81

  Approaching the Bible from a literary/historical perspective, this work discusses such 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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $31.28

  This systematic introduction to the study of the Bible as literature covers such major issues as the forms and strategies of biblical writing, the actual historical and physical settings of that writing, the process of canon formation, the sources of the Pentateuch, and the nature of such literary biblical genres as prophecy, apocalypse, and gospel. Each chapter is an independent yet related essay. The third edition, with revised text and new further reading lists, includes two new chapters on the influence of Middle Eastern literatures on the Bible and on the textual sources of printed Bibles.