Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature is a late 19th-century collection that presents biblical texts in a modern literary format. The work emphasizes the diverse literary forms within the Scriptures, including history, poetry, and oratory, aiming to restore the original literary structure often lost in traditional presentations. It critiques conventional versions of the Bible for obscuring these literary intentions, encouraging readers to engage with the texts as both sacred scripture and a significant part of literary heritage.
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“Between the Biblical writers and our own times have intervened ages in which all interest in literary beauty was lost, and philosophic activity took the form of protracted discussions of brief sayings or 'texts.' Accordingly this solidified matter of Hebrew literature has been divided up into single sentences or 'verses,' numbered mechanically one, two, three, etc., and thus the original literary form has still further been obscured. It is not surprising that to most readers the Bible has become, not a literature, but simply a storehouse of pious 'texts.””
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