Reading every kind of writing in Scripture
- Course
- Foundations
- sections
- 8 sections
- lessons
- 24 lessons
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The Bible is a library, not a single book, and its shelves read differently.
Eight sections cover the forms inside it — history, law, prophecy, poetry and wisdom, the Gospels, the letters, and apocalyptic — so you can tell what kind of writing you are holding and read it the way the Church does.
What's inside
- A Library, Not a Book
- God's Word in Human Words
- Seven Ways Scripture Speaks
- The Books That Keep the Record
- The Record Reaches the Gospels
- When the Record Speaks in Symbols
- Torah Means Instruction
- Law Born of Rescue
- The Whole Law in Two Commands
- Denunciation, Announcement, Discernment
- The Promise After the Warning
- A Prophet's Voice in the Gospels
- How Hebrew Poetry Thinks Twice
- The Books of the Wise
- The Poetry on Jesus' Lips
- Good News, Not a Biography
- Four Gospels, One Christ
- Reading a Gospel Scene
- The Shape of a Letter
- Written Into a Real Crisis
- A Letter From Exile
- Coded Words for a Pressed People
- The Book of Revelation
- Reading Symbols Without Guessing