With what various purposes may the Bible be studied?
What is meant by the study of the Bible as literature?
Give an instance showing that this study is important
for the right interpretation of the Bible. How does
the form in which our Bibles are printed hinder in
the study of it as literature? What other difficulty
is met in the literary study of the Bible? How many
classes of literature are found in the Bible? What is
the department of literature most prominent in the
Bible? Name four kinds of history in the Bible, define
each kind, and give an example of it. To what class of
literature do the stories of the Bible belong? What
are the subjects of some of these stories? What is an
epic? Name some great epics in literature? Wherein do
these differ from the epics in the Bible?