Verbum 9 Tip 9ah: Guide section: Literary typing

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Literary Typing

Verbum supports two literary genre systems:

Longacre genre
Tooman-Mackie genre

It is the latter which is covered by the Literary typing guide section.

From Verbum Help:[quote]

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:

Dorothy, Charles V. The Books of Esther: Structure, Genre and Textual Integrity. Vol. 187. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.
Nasuti, Harry P. Defining the Sacred Songs: Genre, Tradition, and the Post-Critical Interpretation of the Psalms. Vol. 218. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.
Bale, Alan J. Genre and Narrative Coherence in the Acts of the Apostles. Edited by Chris Keith. Vol. 514. Library of New Testament Studies. London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury T&T Clark; Bloomsbury, 2015.
Cheung, Luke Leuk. The Genre, Composition and Hermeneutics of the Epistle of James. Milton Keynes: Paternoster Press, 2003.
Gunn, D. M. The Story of King David: Genre and Interpretation. Vol. 6. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.
Smith, Justin Marc. Why Βίος?: On the Relationship between Gospel Genre and Implied Audience. Edited by Chris Keith. Vol. 518. Library of New Testament Studies. London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Johnson, Marshall D. Making Sense of the Bible: Literary Type as an Approach to Understanding. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.

Section heading bar

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:

Bible reference sometimes hierarchically
Literary type assigned to the Bible reference

Interactions on data

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.
		Click	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	Mouse over	Opens a preview of The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types
		Click	Opens The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types to the literary type.
		Right click	Open Context Menu
		Drag and drop	Opens The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types to the literary type at a location of the user’s choice.

Search

One can search for a specific literary type but not for all literary types.

Supplemental materials

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.