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Enjoying the Bible : literary approaches to loving the scriptures / Matthew Mullins. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, (c)2021.Description: xvii, 203 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781540961662
  • 9781540963932
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS538.M959.E556 2021
Contents:
How reading literature became a quest for meaning -- The Bible is literature -- Meaning is more than message -- Not anything -- Reading with our guts -- Delight and instruction -- Why we worship -- Changing our approach -- How to read: General sense -- How to read: Central emotion -- How to read: Formal means -- A short compendium of forms -- Conclusion: Negative capability and habituation -- Afterword: Reading aloud.
Subject: "A literature professor shows how learning to read and love poetry can increase our understanding of the biblical text, helping us learn to read and love God's Word"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: The hatred of poetry and why it matters -- How reading literature became a quest for meaning -- The Bible is literature -- Meaning is more than message -- Not anything -- Reading with our guts -- Delight and instruction -- Why we worship -- Changing our approach -- How to read: General sense -- How to read: Central emotion -- How to read: Formal means -- A short compendium of forms -- Conclusion: Negative capability and habituation -- Afterword: Reading aloud.

"A literature professor shows how learning to read and love poetry can increase our understanding of the biblical text, helping us learn to read and love God's Word"--

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