ENGL 260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Joseph Story, Literal And Figurative Language, Geneva Bible

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 260
• Professor: Boyarin Shamma

Document Summary

The bible is important because it has shaped english literature through the creaion of new phrases, as well as through the introducion of a common source of reference. The bible as a whole forms a grand epic. Here are two versions of the bible, chrisian and jewish; the chrisian version is more important for english literature. There are two parts of the chrisian bible, the old testament and the new testament: (we generally refer to the ot as such rather than as the jewish bible (tanakh) because it is a polemical name) Old testament: a collecion of jewish scripture, aka hebrew bible (which is a less criical term, was originally writen in hebrew, it was adopted by chrisianity from judaism, parts of the old testament: Apocrypha: a secion found in between the old and new testament in some versions of the bible, it was removed from the ot during the reformaion ater comparison with the.