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The Bible as Divine Literary Art
BibleProject
What's the Difference Between Narrative and Discourse?
The bible is dominantly a narrative, precisely forty three per cent of it. A narrative meaning there's characters in a setting with the plot line driving the story line forward. Within that narrative are large sections, or some books, that are entirely poetry,. either poetry embedded in narrative, or a whole books of poetry. And then there's alsoa broader category that you could just call discourse, which It's not story telling, it's not poetry, it's just speech. In the new testament, this would be something like the letters, paul's letters. But it's tricky because even p Paul's letters sometimes have poems in them, have poems inthem many. Sometimes he's
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