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Verbum supports two literary genre systems:
It is the latter which is covered by the Literary typing guide section.
From Verbum Help:
Literary Typing Section This section places the guide passage within a literary genre, with the passage broken down by book, chapter, and verse. Passages are hyperlinks to the relevant portion of Scripture, and literary types are links to a definition of that type in the Lexham Glossary of Literary Types.[1]
Literary Typing Section
This section places the guide passage within a literary genre, with the passage broken down by book, chapter, and verse. Passages are hyperlinks to the relevant portion of Scripture, and literary types are links to a definition of that type in the Lexham Glossary of Literary Types.[1]
Prerequisite reading: Mangum, Douglas. The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014.
Resources included: Bibles with a reverse interlinear
It is easy to simply read the definitions of genres without stopping to consider the impact of the genre on the text. If you are as guilty of this as I am, I suggest reading some resources that implement genre as an interpretative tool:
There are no settings or save options for Literary Typing. Therefore, both the section heading bar and its menu are the minimal default.
There are only two elements shown:
Visual cue
Data element
Action
Response
Blue text
More
Click
Adds another block of data to the content of the guide.
Bible reference
Mouse over
Opens a standard popup preview text of the Bible reference in the user’s preferred Bible.
Opens the user’s preferred Bible to the given Bible verse.
Right click
Opens a Context Menu
Drag and drop
Opens the user’s preferred Bible to the given Bible verse in a location of the user’s choice.
Literary type
Opens a preview of The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types
Opens The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types to the literary type.
Open Context Menu
Opens The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types to the literary type at a location of the user’s choice.
One can search for a specific literary type but not for all literary types.
Neither the Context Menu nor the Information Panel will show the complete list of literary types assigned to the passage. They will, however, show all the literary types assigned to a single verse.
[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).
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