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Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible
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Item Description...
A survey of the kinds of literature found in Scripture combines the author's Words of Delight and Words of Life. The author clearly explains and offers numerous examples. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 544
Dimensions: Length: 9.01" Width: 6.09" Height: 1.25"
Weight: 1.6 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jun 1, 2001
Publisher Baker Academic
Age 15-15
ISBN 0801077699
EAN 9780801077692
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 | Great Book Feb 1, 2007 |
| Learned a lot of information concerning the Bible. Easy to read and understand. Great addition for all that teach Biblical courses. | | |  | Overkill Aug 23, 2003 |
| The book is well organized, highly researched, and well written, but very boring! It simply analyzes biblical literature to death and makes many of the not so interesting and not so well written parts of the Bible out to be much more than they really are. It's a bit like trying to make the phone book out to be a great piece of literature. It isn't. It is a good source of information and that's all. The Bible has some nice literary parts to it to be sure, but the author stretches the value of much of the literature in the Bible. Her focus on the mundane, was tedious, and left much to be desired. I would have much rather had her be less detailed and cover the more interesting and valid aspects of Biblical literature rather than trying to make even Geneologies and redundant historical accounts out to be more interesting than they really are. Frankly, many of the stories in the Bible are really not that well written and to try and make it seem as though they are is just delusion | | | | Ryken's book a Delight Sep 16, 2000 |
| I taught Hermeneutics, a course on how to study the Bible, for 13 years at S.C.S.E. I read "Words of Delight" (when it was still a two volume work) six years into my work with the school and found that it fit the bill for what I wanted to accomplish with my students. The book is divided into four parts treating Biblical Narrative first. Part two focuses on Biblical Poetry; Part Three on Other Biblical Literary Forms and Part Four, The New Testament. Some books treat the Bible as nothing more than literature. But if you are looking for a book that helps you to appreciate the literary aspects of the Bible while at the same time addressing it as the Word of God, this book is for you. Frankly, I am surprised that someone else hasn't already written a glowing report of this book for this site. I recommend it to every Bible student. It is the single-most useful book I have read on the subject. (I would also recommend a work Dr. Ryken co edited, "Dictionary of Biblical Imagery" and "The Complete Literary Guide to the Bible," and a book he co-authored with Jim Wilhoit, "Effective Bible Teaching.") Oh, why don't I just come right out and say it, "If Leland Ryken's name is associated with it, get it. | | | Write your own review about Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible
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