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Reading the Bible as Literature provides the ideal entry-point to the process of reading, understanding, and assessing what many recognize to be the important and powerful literature of the Bible. Such reading holds potential for helping students understand literature generally and the Bible in itself. The book introduces the tools of literary analysis, including: language and style, the formal structures of genre (narrative, drama, and poetry), character study, and thematic analysis.

The overall organizational structure of the book proceeds incrementally from basic...

The purpose of this text is to look at genres--broad and narrow--as they can be recognized in books of the Old Testament in the existing canon with respect to various conventions of genre. Genre becomes a useful tool for helping readers know what to look for, expect, and how to organize their experience in reading the Old Testament. Jeanie C. Crain is professor of English at Missouri Western State University. She is the author of Reading the Bible as Literature: an Introduction (Polity Press 2010).