Understanding the Bible as an account of the unfolding
revelation of God to humankind through history, Roland Mushat Frye
suggests that the many sub-plots, monologues, and reflections of
the Bible compose a coherent story that continues through both the
Old and New Testaments. "The convictions of the Bible, to be sure,
are the convictions of religion and ethics," he writes, "but the
methods are the methods of literature." Carefully arranging a
selection of excerpts that comprise approximately one-fourth of the
entire Bible, he enables the reader to follow chronologically the
main narrative as well as the most significant asides. With
introductory and explanatory material providing transition and
background information, the reader progresses from book to book as
from chapter to chapter in a novel. Thus, this is called "The
Reader's Bible" because it may be read as a narrative, as a story
that unifies consecutive events through which the character of God
gradually unfolds.
God first appears in the opening of Genesis with the creation of
the universe; against this backdrop the human drama is played. We
see Everyman and Everywoman endowed with a life in harmony as long
as they accept the primacy of God. When they repudiate this
primacy, chaos replaces harmony and they find themselves in a
wilderness rather than in a garden. God then turns from the attempt
to create a righteous and peaceful order for all of humanity to a
concentration on one segment of humanity-the race of Abraham--for
the development of a conception of human personality and community
that may serve as a pattern for all human beings.
Professor Frye writes that however miraculous the entrances of
God upon the stage may appear to be, they do constitute entrances
into ordinary human affairs. These encounters Invite us to look
both within and beyond them to what they reveal about God and about
ourselves. Concerned with the matter of living here and hereafter,
the different biblical histories and stories are brought together
to provide cumulative insight into human nature and destiny.
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