How to read the Bible : history, prophecy, literature-- why modern readers need to know the difference, and what it means for faith today / Steven L. McKenzie.
Title:
How to read the Bible : history, prophecy, literature-- why modern readers need to know the difference, and what it means for faith today / Steven L. McKenzie.
ISBN:
9780195161496
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
207 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction: Jonah and genre -- Not exactly as it happened : historiography in the Bible -- Forthtelling, not foretelling : biblical prophecy -- Life's real questions : wisdom literature in the Bible -- Not the end of the world as we know it : apocalyptic literature in the Bible -- Issues in the churches : the letters of the New Testament.
OCLC Number:
ocm57731099
Availability:
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