The Bible as literature. [print]
Edited by Alton C. Capps.
- New York, Webster Division, McGraw-Hill (c)1971.
- xiv, 418 pages 23 cm.
- Patterns in literary art series .
Introduction -- Epic literature -- Epic stories -- The Beginning -- Temptation of Adam and Eve -- Cain and Abel: the first murder -- The Flood -- The Tower of Babel -- Gideon's three hundred -- The Battle of Jericho -- Joshua halts the sun -- Epic cycles -- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- Samuel, Saul, David, Absalom, and Solomon -- Elijah and Elisha -- Epic history -- Joseph -- Moses -- Ruth -- Special history -- The Gospels -- The Acts of the apostles -- Lyric poetry -- The Song -- The Ode -- The Elegy -- Meditation poetry -- Monodies -- Dramatic lyrics -- Ritual lyrics -- Lyric idyll -- Rhetoric -- Epistolary literature -- Epistles of pastoral intercourse -- Epistolary treatises -- Epistolary manifestoes -- Oratory (spoken rhetoric) -- Formal speeches -- Fables, allegories, and parables -- Wisdom literature -- The Riddle -- The Unit proverb -- The Couplet -- The Epigram -- Bible sonnets -- The Maxim -- The Essay -- Prophetic literature -- Prophetic discourse -- Symbolic prophecy -- Emblem prophecy -- Vision prophecy -- Prophetic parable -- Prophetic intercourse -- Dramatic prophecy -- The Doom song -- The Rhapsody -- Study questions.