Modern Genre Theory: An Introduction for Biblical StudiesHow a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text. The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and apocalyptic texts lead to vastly different readings, and our disagreements about what the Bible means often boil down to different assumptions about what the biblical

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Yancey interacts with the Old Testament from the perspective of his own deeply personal journey

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