Naked Bible 022: Introducing Genres and Reading Bible Stories Like Fiction

In the past few episodes of the podcast series on learning how to really study your Bible, I’ve focused on the issue of how critical it is to take the Bible in its own context, not a context that is familiar to us, like modern evangelicalism or the Reformation. I want to transition now to another important area of study: learning to read the Bible in terms of the various types of literature found in its pages. In this episode, we'll talk about how to read narrative intelligently. I recommend reading it like fiction -- like you would read a ...