Is there a resource that will show me all the Genres in all the books of the Bible?
thanks
Hi Sam,
Haven't found any in my L4 library.
But searching on the web, got many hits. Most cover just the general genre for each book of the Bible. In a Bible book various genres can vary (e.g. parable, genealogy, doxology, etc).
This site has a some info: http://www.ress.ie/inser-jun09/Biblical%20Genres%20and%20Form%20Criticism.pdf
From the Faithlife Study Bible:
"No serious Bible student can ignore the various genres in the Bible. Ten predominate: narrative, law, wisdom, psalms, and prophecy in the ot; and gospel, parable, Acts, letter, and apocalypse in the nt. Each of these genres must be read differently in order for their content to be appreciated and understood."
On a very general level, How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth is excellent.
Is there a resource that will show me all the Genres in all the books of the Bible? On a very general level, How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth is excellent.
Companion volume => How to Read the Bible Book by Book by same authors.
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Logos has its own genre coding available in the Passage Guide. I think I put a list of them in the wiki but I may have just given a sample in the filters section.
For the Old Testament, the series Forms of Old Testament Literature contains a thorough, systematic genre analysis. The Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Text (in many of the Logos base packages) is also useful, as it tags individual words with the genre (text type) they appear in.
