Sentences with phrase «varied literary types»

As different from one another as are these varied literary types, as literature, they are remarkably unified in the common history and faith of the community of Israel.

In the five chapters of this book I have selected and discussed outstanding examples of Old Testament myth, legend, history, prophecy and law in an effort to show that common theological presuppositions underlie all of these varying literary types, and that they must be read and understood as speaking from faith to faith.