Literary Elements In The Bible

In chapter twenty nine Hendricks mentions the importance of five literary genres that God uses throughout the Bible. Exposition is a common literary genre that is seen in the Bible. Hendrick uses Paul's letters in Roman as a representative of exposition. Since exposition means an argument or an explanation of truth. Therefore, Hendrick believes Paul's letters represent the exposition genre. Simply because paul uses many conjuction words like and, but, and therefore. The usage of those words can reeble connections being made in the writing. Another literary genre is narratives and biography. Hendricks states that the bible is full of stories both in the new testament and old testament. While analyzing a story hendrick writes that we should consider searching for three pieces of data. The first pieces of data is the plot. As readers we should ask ourselves whats going on in the story. Is there a physical or spiritual movement going on in the stories? Those are questions we should keep in mind. The second piece of data is characterization. There are many question surrounding character. Questions like, Who is the character?, what role do they play?, how are they connected to God?, and what decision do they make? Likewise parables are almost similar to narratives and simple to understand. …show more content…
By using the tools and techniques that Hendrick has mentioned in the previous chapters we should be able to unrivaled the content. Tools that include searching for terms, structure, and literary form. Also the use of things that are, emphasized, repeated, related, alike, and unlike. Hendrick states that at this point in our reading we should be able gather these information and use it to our advantage Now that we've mastered how to find this clues we could put our skills to the test hendrick