Documentary

Reading Biblical Literature: Genesis to Revelation

Craig R. Koester · 2016

Sequence ladder

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Context2016lived_experience

What this book knows

The Bible's literary arc moves from creation's harmony through fracture toward love as the measure of all human and divine action.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

The first words of Genesis are 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,' and the rest of chapter 1 pictures harmony in the natural world.
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If I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
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obedience-and-authority

A voice from heaven declares that Jesus is God's beloved Son, inaugurating a period of action in which Jesus engages the forces that hold people captive in sin and disease.
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Illuminates

3 published passages · documentary · lived experience

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