The Reader's Bible, A Narrative: Selections from the King James VersionPrinceton University Press, 2021 M05 11 - 640 pages Understanding the Bible as an account of the unfolding revelation of God to humankind through history, Roland Mushat Frye suggests that the many sub-plots, monologues, and reflections of the Bible compose a coherent story that continues through both the Old and New Testaments. "The convictions of the Bible, to be sure, are the convictions of religion and ethics," he writes, "but the methods are the methods of literature." Carefully arranging a selection of excerpts that comprise approximately one-fourth of the entire Bible, he enables the reader to follow chronologically the main narrative as well as the most significant asides. With introductory and explanatory material providing transition and background information, the reader progresses from book to book as from chapter to chapter in a novel. Thus, this is called The Reader's Bible because it may be read as a narrative, as a story that unifies consecutive events through which the character of God gradually unfolds. |
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Selections from the King James Version Roland Mushat Frye. THE BIBLE Selections from the King James TVersion for Study as siterature * * * EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ROLAND MUSHAT FRYE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON ...
... Biblical scholarship have for the most part concerned relatively minor points of emphasis and understanding. The one major exception concerns the source relationships and chronology of the gospels in the New Testament. In 1963 it was ...
... Bible as Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), and in Leland Ryken, The Literature of the Bible (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1974). Fascinating for its subject is Ward Allen's Translating for King ...
... Bible is of diversity, and so it is on the subject of diversity that we shall begin our discussion here. The Bible opens upon a scene of vast primordial chaos, with the spirit of God brooding dove-like upon the abyss to bring forth life ...
... Bible are many, so too were the manners of developing the various books of the Bible as we know them. Some books — and but the word “myth” has so many conflicting meanings both among scholars and among laymen that I find its use creates ...
Contents
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Exodus Leviticus Numbers | 63 |
Joshua Judges Ruth | 120 |
Judges 131 Ruth | 148 |
First Samuel 154 Second Samuel 198 First Kings | 234 |
First Kings 238 Second Kings | 264 |
The Prophets and Nehemiah | 331 |
Various Writings | 369 |
Isaiah 4055 | 440 |
Luke John Acts | 455 |
John 504Acts | 537 |
Romans First Corinthians Philippians Galatians | 578 |
Revelation | 588 |