Previously, we talked about reading the Bible from a historical perspective. Today, we are going to talk about the literary interpretation of the Bible. The literary method is different from the historical method because it focuses on reading the texts as they exist now rather than focusing on learning about the past. Here, we are interested in the books of the Bible as works of literature: we want to analyze the plot, setting, characters, vocabulary, sentence structure, literary devices, and other such things.
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Footnotes from Web Post:
For a discussion of literary interpretation of the Bible, see Carol A. Newsom, “Contemporary Methods in Biblical Study,” in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, with the Apocrypha, 5th ed., ed. Michael Coogan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 1883.
Collen Conway, “The Gospel According to John,” in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 1520; see also Raymond Brown, The Gospel according to John, I-XII (Garden City: Doubleday, 1966).