November 4th, 2018

DEFINITION: A genre is a form of writing that adheres to a particular pattern. “People interact with one another by using conventional, repeatable patterns of speech.”[1]

[1] James L. Bailey, “Genre Analysis,” in Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation, ed. Joel B. Green, Second Edition. (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010), 140.