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The Naked Bible Podcast

Naked Bible 022: Introducing Genres and Reading Bible Stories Like Fiction

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In the past few episodes of the podcast series on learning how to really study your Bible, I’ve focused on the issue of how critical it is to take the Bible in its own context, not a context that is familiar to us, like modern evangelicalism or the Reformation. I want to transition now to another important area of study: learning to read the Bible in terms of the various types of literature found in its pages. In this episode, we'll talk about how to read narrative intelligently. I recommend reading it like fiction -- like you would read a novel. The problem is that we read the Bible like we read a textbook. That kills inquisitiveness. Read it like a novel; read it like the writer had an agenda or a plan – because he did. Shimeon bar-Efrat, Narrative Art in the Bible [Understanding the Bible and Its World

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Welcome back to the naked Bible podcast.

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In the past few episodes of the podcast series on learning how to really study your Bible,

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as opposed to just reading it, I focused on the issue of how critical it is to take the Bible

0:46.5

in its own context, not a context that's familiar to us, like modern even jolicalism or the

0:53.4

Reformation. I want to transition now to another important area of real Bible study, learning

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to read the Bible in terms of the various types of literature found in its pages.

1:06.8

Now an academic biblical study, thinking about the type of literature, means studying the various

1:12.8

genres of literature. A genre of literature can be simply understood as a kind or type of literature.

1:21.3

You may not have thought consciously about this, but you already know intuitively that there are

1:26.6

many different kinds of literature, or if you prefer many different kinds of documents or texts.

1:34.3

Each of them brings with it certain expectations about which you would normally find in that type

1:41.1

and what you wouldn't. For example, think of all the different types of writing you might run into

1:46.8

in the course of a day. A letter, a comic book, a newspaper, maybe a legal brief for summons,

1:56.3

a blog post, a bill, an invitation to some event, maybe a sales sign or a billboard, a bus schedule,

2:07.0

a book, a sales receipt, about a menu, and so on and so forth. Each one of those, in fact,

2:15.8

can be broken down into subcategories. Let's take the sales sign. You could have a sign for a

2:21.4

house sale, a yard sale, a garage sale, and a state sale, maybe a sale for clothing or a car

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