bible books/genres

narrative

• story telling

• vague

• 3rd person

• genealogy

• characters

• dialogue

• hanging questions

poetry

• tenor/vehicle

• one voice

• TO god from people

• generally placed in history

• “I” statements

• parallelism

• metaphor/images

widsom

• no named characters - have title

• metaphors, imagery

• not a lot of God references

• riddle-like

• ecclesiates/proverbs

prophecy

• FROM god to people

• explains why something is happening

• what is going to happen

• “I” statement - 1st person

• specific - place in history

• jumps between narrative and poetry

• messages of hope

• rebuking - wagging finger - you screwed up

  • vineyards

  • whores/women

  • wealth/vanity

genesis

• creation

• noah

• joeseph

exodus

• very little historical proof

• moses

• 10 commandments

numbers

• narrative

• traveling through desert

ruth

• narrative

1 samuel

• narrative

• david/sual/jonathan

2 samuel

• narrative

• david, saul

• a lot of

psalms

• poetry

• not in a specific moment

• applicable to many situations

proverbs

• wisdom

• NOT first person

ecclesiates

• wisdom

• “teacher”

• 1st person

song of solomon

• poetry

isaiah

• prophecy

jeremiah

• prophecy

ezekiel

• prophecy

• “pretty crazy” - crazy imagrey

jonah

• narrative (with some prophecy)

fall of first temple

586 BCE

course themes

• relationships, covenants, and power

• place, environment, land

• chosen-ness, self, and other

• universality v particularity

• history, family, and gender identity

• scriptural implications for contemporary life

synonymous parallelism

a/b says same thing in similar grammatic form

anthetical

a/b says something but opposite

synthetic

cause/affect says something but opposite

climactic

multiple things that build (ex. psalm 19:3)

type scene

• here i am

• well

• famine

• barren women