Literary Styles in the Bible

According to the video, why is it important to pay attention to the style that the story you are reading is written in?

According to the video, the authors use characters in stories to: 

• explain why things are they way they are 

• explore deep questions and ideas 

• teach us how to live 

• write tweets. They only get 280 of them after all!

According to the narrators, most Biblical characters are:

• paragons of virtue

• deeply flawed

True of false: poetry uses more metaphors and images than straight forward explanations.

• True

• False

Name 3 examples of where you may find poetry in Bible.

True or false: discourse books try to get you to think about what you are doing, using logic and reason.

• True

• False

Each book has only one literary style.

• True

• False

Why did the video use the analogy of a book store? 

• Because the Bible is a book.

• Because it is a cool backdrop. 

• Because the Bible is actually a collection of 73 books.