How to Read the Bible history, prophecy, literature-- why modern readers need to know the difference, and what it means for faith today

How to Read the Bible : history, prophecy, literature-- why modern readers need to know the difference, and what it means for faith today / Steven L. McKenzie.

Author/creator	McKenzie, Steven L., 1953-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Description	207 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Religion
Subject(s)	Bible--Introductions. Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents	Introduction: Jonah and genre -- Not exactly as it happened : historiography in the Bible -- Forthtelling, nor foretelling : biblical prophecy -- Life's real questions : wisdom literature and the Bible -- Not the end of the world as we know it : wisdom literature in the Bible -- Issues in the churches : the letters of the New Testament.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-203) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2005003875
ISBN	0195161491 (alk. paper)

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