The Reader's Bible, A Narrative: Selections from the King James VersionPrinceton University Press, 2021 M05 11 - 640 pages Understanding the Bible as an account of the unfolding revelation of God to humankind through history, Roland Mushat Frye suggests that the many sub-plots, monologues, and reflections of the Bible compose a coherent story that continues through both the Old and New Testaments. "The convictions of the Bible, to be sure, are the convictions of religion and ethics," he writes, "but the methods are the methods of literature." Carefully arranging a selection of excerpts that comprise approximately one-fourth of the entire Bible, he enables the reader to follow chronologically the main narrative as well as the most significant asides. With introductory and explanatory material providing transition and background information, the reader progresses from book to book as from chapter to chapter in a novel. Thus, this is called The Reader's Bible because it may be read as a narrative, as a story that unifies consecutive events through which the character of God gradually unfolds. |
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... Abraham is called, he is called as an individual, but his individual call is to found a nation through which all nations will be benefited. Even at the most chauvinistic moments in the establishment of the nation of Israel, there was a ...
... Abraham — and the Bible focuses upon the experience of this one people. The chosen people became a kind of laboratory school for the development of a conception of human personality and human society which may serve as a pattern to all ...
... Abraham, Moses, David, the prophets. In view of all of this, Jesus was not only called the Christ, but also the Son of God and the Word of God made flesh. It was in him that the ultimate characterization of God for man took place ...
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Contents
Genesis | 3 |
Exodus Leviticus Numbers | 63 |
Joshua Judges Ruth | 120 |
Judges 131 Ruth | 148 |
First Samuel 154 Second Samuel 198 First Kings | 234 |
First Kings 238 Second Kings | 264 |
The Prophets and Nehemiah | 331 |
Various Writings | 369 |
Isaiah 4055 | 440 |
Luke John Acts | 455 |
John 504Acts | 537 |
Romans First Corinthians Philippians Galatians | 578 |
Revelation | 588 |