Bible Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is…

— Leland Ryken

Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave…

— Lafcadio Hearn

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way…

— Frank Moore Cross

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

— Northrop Frye

"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins.…

— D. A. Carson

My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably…

— Leland Ryken

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the…

— Terry Eagleton

A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it…

— Leland Ryken

“In my own academic field, it is much easier to get a doctorate in biblical studies if you do a relentlessly left-brain analysis of…

— N.T. Wright

The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the…

— R. A. Torrey