Preaching and the Literary Forms of the Bible
- ISBN-10
- 0800623134
- ISBN-13
- 9780800623135
- Category
- Religion / Christian Rituals & Practice / General
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Fortress Press
- Author
- Thomas G. Long
Description
Long argues that the literary form and dynamics of biblical texts can and should make a difference in the kinds of sermons created from those texts, not only because of what the texts say but because of how they say it. He presents a methodology for taking the literary characteristics of biblical texts into account in the text-to-sermon process and then applies that methodology in separate chapters on preaching on psalms, proverbs, narratives, parables, and epistles.
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