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Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale.
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Nations can have literatures, as can corporations, philosophical schools or historical periods. Popular belief commonly holds that the literature of a nation, for example, comprises the collection of texts which make it a whole nation. The Hebrew Bible, Persian Shahnama, Thirukural, Beowulf, the Iliad and the Odyssey and the Constitution of the United States, all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
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Bullinger: Figures of Speech Used in the Bible - HTML Etext at God's Truth for Today.
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Figures of Speech, by A. E. Knoch - Etext of introductory article on figurative language.
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Noncanonical Literature - The main Jewish and Christian apocryphal and pseudepigraphal texts, Fathers of the Church and Gnostic literature of Nag Hammadi, Egypt.
Meta Description: [ Noncanonical Literature - Documents to Aid Students and Scholars in Biblical Interpretation including Introductions and Summaries of Many Noncanonical Works ]
OCP - The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha - Online, free-access critical texts of the Pseudepigrapha in their original or extant languages and with a critical apparatus. Sponsored by King's University College, at The University of Western Ontario, Canada.
On-Line Texts Related to Biblical Study - Related to ancient Near Eastern religions, Hellenistic Mediterranean religions and Biblical Study. By Alan Humm at the University of Pennsylvania.
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