The Complete Literary Guide to the Bible

by Leland Ryken and Tremper Longman III

• ISBN13: 9780310230786
• ISBN10: 0310230780
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

The EditorsLeland Ryken Wheaton College (Illinois) Tremper Longman III Westminster Theological Seminary The Authors Fredrick Buechner Novelist John Sailhamer Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Wilson G. Baroody (deceased) Arizona State UniversityWilliam F. Gentrup Arizona State UniversityKenneth R.R. Gros Louis Indiana University Willard Van Antwerpen Indiana University Nancy Tischler The Pennsylvania State University V. Philips Long Covenant Theological Seminary Michael Hagan North American Baptist Seminary Richard L. Pratt, Jr. Reformed Theological Seminary Douglas Green Yale University Wilma McClarty Southern College Jerry A. Gladson First Christian Church, Garden Grove, California Raymond C. Van Leeouwen Calvin Theological Seminary G. Lloyd Carr Gordon College Richard Patterson Liberty University James H. Sims The University of Southern Mississippi Branson L. Woodard, Jr. Liberty University Amberys R. Whittle Georgia Southern University John H. Augustine Yale University Michael Travers Grand Rapids Baptist College Marianne Meye Thompson Fuller Theological Seminary John W. Sider Westmont College Carey C. Newman Palm Beach Atlantic CollegeWilliam G. Doty The University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa Chaim Potak Novelist Gene Warren Doty University of Missouri-Rolla Sidney Greidanus Calvin Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(2)
Preface	9	(6)
Part 1
Introduction	15	(25)
Leland Ryken
Tremper Longman III
The Bible as Literature	40	(9)
Frederick Buechner
The Bible as Literature: A Brief History	49	(20)
Leland Ryken
Biblical Narrative	69	(11)
Tremper Longman III
Biblical Poetry	80	(15)
Tremper Longman III
Part 2
The Literature of the Old Testament	95	(13)
Tremper Longman III
Genesis	108	(13)
John Sailhamer
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy	121	(16)
Wilson G. Baroody
William F. Gentrup
Joshua and Judges	137	(14)
Kenneth R. K. Gros Louis
Willard Van Antwerpen, Jr.
Ruth	151	(14)
Nancy M. Tischler
First and Second Samuel	165	(17)
V. Philips Long
First and Second Kings	182	(11)
G. Michael Hagan
First and Second Chronicles	193	(13)
Richard L. Pratt, Jr.
Ezra-Nehemiah	206	(10)
Douglas Green
Esther	216	(14)
Wilma McClarty
Job	230	(15)
Jerry A. Gladson
Psalms	245	(11)
Tremper Longman III
Proverbs	256	(12)
Raymond C. Van Leeuwen
Ecclesiastes	268	(13)
Leland Ryken
Song of Songs	281	(15)
G. Lloyd Carr
Old Testament Prophecy	296	(14)
Richard Patterson
Isaiah	310	(14)
William F. Gentrup
Daniel	324	(13)
James H. Sims
Amos	337	(11)
Leland Ryken
Jonah	348	(13)
Branson L. Woodard, Jr.
Part 3
The Literature of the New Testament	361	(15)
Leland Ryken
Matthew	376	(11)
Amberys R. Whittle
Mark	387	(11)
John H. Augustine
Luke	398	(11)
Michael Travers
John	409	(13)
Marianne Meye Thompson
The Parables	422	(14)
John W. Sider
Acts	436	(9)
Carey C. Newman
The Epistles	445	(13)
William G. Doty
Revelation	458	(15)
Leland Ryken
Part 4
The Literary Influence of the Bible	473	(16)
Leland Ryken
The Novelist and the Bible	489	(10)
Chaim Potok
The Bible Through a Poet's Eyes	499	(10)
Gene Warren Doty
The Value of a Literary Approach for Preaching	509	(11)
Sidney Greidanus
Indexes	520