A Primer on Biblical Literary Genre - a podcast by Jonathan Michael Jones

Biblical
hermeneutics are attached to a wide array of external factors such as one’s
traditional upbringing, previous instruction, personal contexts, e.g. family,
work, and school, and (perhaps more than the rest) literary genre. Many
Christians seem to make the mistake of interpreting biblical texts without
proper understanding of the literary genre they read. Such an understanding is
imperative, nonetheless, to a correct interpretation. One cannot read the
metaphors of poetry, for example, as literal history. Various genres exist in
the canon of Scripture. This paper will examine each of the major genres of the
Bible in an overarching fashion and ultimately call believers to excellence in
biblical interpretation.

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