Comparatively, most other Bible books are much younger. The poetic structure and idiomatic expressions that the author employed are typical of ancient Semitic literature. Furthermore, the themes ...

We must return to the love of books, she argues, and not just the books of the Bible. Reading books of history, poetry, rhetoric, and narrative trains us to read and interpret the same genres found in ...

The extraordinary poetry of the book offers the reader ... early Christians believed that the Hebrew Bible was God's book, and therefore a book that should cast light on current events and moral ...