A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible is consideration of the Bible from a literary perspective, reflecting contemporary interest in the academic world of the Bible as literature. This collection of essays addresses both specific books of the Bible and general topics dealing with the Bible. The four main sections of the book are; The Bible as Literature, The Literature of the Old Testament, The Literature of the New Testament, and The Literary Influence of the Bible.
The editors for A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible are Leland Ryken and Tremper Longman III. Contributors include: Fredrick Buechner, Novelist
John Sailhamer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Wilson G. Baroody, Arizona State University
William F. Gentrup, Arizona State University
Kenneth R.R. Gros, Louis Indiana University
Willard Van Antwerpen, Indiana University
Nancy Tischler, The Pennsylvania State University
Michael Hagan, North American Baptist Seminary
Richard L. Pratt, Jr., Reformed Theological Seminary
Douglas Green, Yale University
Wilma McClarty, Southern College
Jerry A. Gladson, First Christian Church, Garden Grove, California
Raymond C. Van Leeouwen, Calvin Theological Seminary
Richard Patterson, Liberty University
James H. Sims, The University of Southern Mississippi
Branson L. Woodard, Jr. Liberty University
Amberys R. Whittle, Georgia Southern University
John H. Augustine, Yale University
Michael Travers, Grand Rapids Baptist College
Marianne Meye Thompson, Fuller Theological Seminary
John W. Sider, Westmont College
Carey C. Newman, Palm Beach Atlantic College
William G. Doty, The University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa
Chaim Potak, Novelist
Gene Warren Doty, University of Missouri-Rolla
Sidney Greidanus, Calvin Theological Seminary