A Literary Guide to the Bible: A Study of the Types of Literature Present in the Old and New Testaments (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Laura H. Wild

9780331214253: A Literary Guide to the Bible: A Study of the Types of Literature Present in the Old and New Testaments (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331214253 ISBN 13: 9780331214253

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Excerpt from A Literary Guide to the Bible: A Study of the Types of Literature Present in the Old and New Testaments

Now in order to begin to understand any literature from this last standpoint one must take a type such as folk-lore, story, or poetry and stay with it long enough to put one self as nearly as possible into the feelings and state of mind Of that group of authors. One must single out certain illustrations and study them so carefully that their delicate shades of beauty and forceful devices for conveying mean ing shall not escape one. One should also compare these illustrations with masterpieces of the same type in other literatures in order to realize the peculiar power of a racial genius.

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