THE ART OF BIBLICAL OBSERVATION: 28 Literary Devices


28 Literary Devices when systematically deployed guard and protect scripture interpretation: thus openly mitigating the perceived spiritual value of all the many trendy avenues of not only reimagining but casually remaking the actual ancient BIBLICAL TEXT into just another BIG scrap filled pretty BOOK, all MARKED up and CULTURALLY  unnecessarily CUTE! 

Most marking up and adding pretties to the actual BIBLICAL TEXT is profitable for all the many growing faith based companies, but in all actually the practice of ANNOTATING most all of the twenty-eight plus LITERARY DEVICES as Duvall and Hayes describe as THE ART OF OBSERVATION leads to better BiBLICAL LITERACY and ultimately more acutely serious Bible Study and in additional makes all the many trendy avenues of marking up the Bible, really nothing more than a twenty-first century myth of workmanship. 


  1. Repetition of Words
  2. Contrasts
  3. Comparisons
  4. Lists
  5. Cause and Effect
  6. Figures of Speech
  7. Conjunctions
  8. Verbs
  9. Pronouns
  10. Questions
  11. Answers
  12. Dialogue
  13. Means
  14. Purpose Statements
  15. Results Statements
  16. General to Specific
  17. Specific to general
  18. Conditional Clause
  19. Actions/roles of God (Who)
  20. Action roles of people (Who)
  21. Emotional terms
  22. Tone 
  23. Weight
  24. Connections
  25. Episodes
  26. Shifts
  27. Pivots
  28. Interchange
  29. Chiasm
  30. Prolepsis

THE ART OF BIBLICAL OBSERVATION is a seven days in May Monday to Monday, type of study which includes parts of speech and sentence structure. I hope and pray you join me as we embark on a Learning to see journey.











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