THE ART OF BIBLICAL OBSERVATION: 28 Literary Devices

During the final seven days in May, we will learn or relearn 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 ole 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 actuality the practice of ANNOTATING most all of the twenty-eight plus LITERARY DEVICES as described by Duvall and Hayes 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 Sunday, type of study which includes reviewing parts of speech and sentence structure. I hope and pray you join me as we embark on a learning to see spiritual journey.