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110 essays on the artistic and literary beauty of the Bible, filed under the part of scripture they read.

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Reading the Bible

9 essays

There are 66 books in the Bible, and 1,189 chapters.

There are some fascinating hints at the structure of the New Testament.

It's a common literary technique to use physical things for metaphorical reasons.

We look at Scripture for our hermeneutic for looking at the world.

“My God, my God, Thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God…”

We are always told in hermeneutics classes that something is lost in translation.

The Bible is literature, and does not want to waste its energy on the option of “the Bible as literature.”

“Historical-critical scholarship has received insufficient literary training, or no training at all.”

The layers of meaning of Scripture unfold the further we read.