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Literary Styles in the Bible

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Robert Alter: The Bible Through Literary Eyes

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Reading the Bible as Literature: Introduction

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The Bible and English Literature - Northrop Frye - Lecture 1 of 25

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The Bible and English Literature | The Bible: Its influence on English Literature

The Bible is a collection of religious texts or scriptures sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthology—a compilation of texts of a variety of forms—originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophesies, among other genres. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, while understanding what that means in different ways.
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