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   marilynn07 Teacher
   High School - 9th Grade

   The whole book is considered to be a historical narrative.

   Contained within the Old and New testaments of the Bible are the broad genres of narrative and poetry.

   If you break down the poetry into more specific genres, you will find lyric poetry, lament, love poem, epithalamion(wedding poem), and nature poem

   If you break down the narrative genre into more specific genres you will find creation stories, legal codes, parables, letters, epic, tragic comedy, etc.

   Sources:

   http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001870.cfm

   http://www.catholic-resources.org/Bible/Genres.htm

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   Posted by marilynn07 on Friday March 20, 2009 at 6:47 AM