Literary Genre of The Bible?

[manifold]

What literary genre do you think the Bible falls under?

The reason I ask is because I was recently perusing a local Barnes & Noble and they had the Bible in the section for "Historical Fiction".

Please vote and discuss.

 

[manifold]

I voted 'Other', because I think 'religious texts' deserves it's own genre, albeit a pretty small one considering.

 

[Mr Natural]

You left out the "Myths and Legends" category.

 

[Ravi]

How odd. Our B&N has it in the religion section.

 

[signelect]

It is clearly a religious book that has been around longer than any book in B&N. I am not saying you have to agree with it Just as an example what is playboy, fact or fiction, I expect fiction r make that plastic surgery.

 

[manifold]

How odd. Our B&N has it in the religion section.

But then again Florida isn't a bastion of liberal religious intolerance like good ole Massachusetts.

 

[konradv]

Self Help?

 

[Valerie]

How odd. Our B&N has it in the religion section.

Some young smartass brilliantly placed the Bible in the wrong section on purpose and I'm guessing his name was probably manifold!

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[Ravi]

there is also no "historical fiction" section at a B&N store....

 

[manifold]

damn it Ravi, shut the fuck up would ya!

 

[Two Thumbs]

What literary genre do you think the Bible falls under?

The reason I ask is because I was recently perusing a local Barnes & Noble and they had the Bible in the section for "Historical Fiction".

Please vote and discuss.

What's "historical fiction"?






It goes in the religion section or in Sci-fi/Fantasy

 

[Vidi]

The new testament is a biography in the roman and greek tradition. Technically speaking.

 

[Vidi]

there is also no "historical fiction" section at a B&N store....

There used to be. One of my first jobs out of high school was at a Barnes and Noble.

 

[Ariux]

there is also no "historical fiction" section at a B&N store....

Then where did B&N put Holocaust books?

 

[Noomi]

What literary genre do you think the Bible falls under?

The reason I ask is because I was recently perusing a local Barnes & Noble and they had the Bible in the section for "Historical Fiction".

Please vote and discuss.

It isn't non fiction, because there is no evidence the Bible is fact. It isn't historical fiction for the same reason. I would put it under fiction.

 

[amrchaos]

What literary genre do you think the Bible falls under?

The reason I ask is because I was recently perusing a local Barnes & Noble and they had the Bible in the section for "Historical Fiction".

Please vote and discuss.

That is most likely a mistake.

The Bible would fall under Religion or Theology.

 

[amrchaos]

What literary genre do you think the Bible falls under?

The reason I ask is because I was recently perusing a local Barnes & Noble and they had the Bible in the section for "Historical Fiction".

Please vote and discuss.

It isn't non fiction, because there is no evidence the Bible is fact. It isn't historical fiction for the same reason. I would put it under fiction.

There are some facts intertwined in the stories and miracles.

However, if the bible was not a religious text, which section of the bookstore/library would it go? I would say fiction--since then miracles would then beconsidered leaps of fantasies.

But some people believe in them, and use them to "found"(as in foundation--but I don't think there is a word for this terminology!) their faiths on. So it should go into religion and theology.

 

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