KNJIŽEVNI RODOVI I VRSTE U BIBLIJI
LITERARY GENRES WITHIN THE BIBLE

Summary/Abstract: From the point of view of literature, the Bible is a collection of different texts written over the period of 14 centuries. All the texts in the Bible are related to the religious and didactic topics. Although the texts are stylized, the authors didn`t pay attention to the harmony of styles and genres. Moreover, certain books were transferred from the oral tradition into the written form. The texts are structured in different ways - from those characterized by dialectal expressions and the simplicity of form to those written following all the rules of a literary genre. Analyzing the texts from the point of view of the literary classification, which was often changing through history, one needs to look for certain forms and analogies and identify the examples of certain genres in the mixed-genre texts. Taking into account different criteria and perceptions of various cultures and periods, the paper clearly identifies the main genres and subgenres, more so in the texts written in the biblical, didactic style than in the whole text of a particular book.

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