This course gives a new perspective to reading the Bible in any language. Bible writings are viewed from the literary standpoint, as story of origins, heroic narratives, epic, parody, tragedy, lyric, epithalamion, encomium, wisdom, proverb, parable, pastoral, satire, prophecy, gospel, epistle, oratory, and apocalypse. Study is made of the distinct Hebrew literary poetic device of parallelism.