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Re:Ask HN: Best resources for appreciating the Bible for non... by quercusa on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:17PM (#34293536)
Here are a few excellent books worth considering:

The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading, Meir Sternberg

The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism, Berlin and Freedman

Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke, Kenneth E. Bailey

Robert Alter's translations of the Hebrew Bible have lots of interesting notes.

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