Reading the Bible as Documents

When I first saw the five models of Mark Reasoner (Five Models of Scripture) I thought he was taking a cross-sectional approach to how we encounter the Bible and various Bible readings. His five are: Bible as (1) Documents, (2) Stories, (3) Prayers, (4) Laws, and (5) Oracles. John Goldingay’s Models of Scripture used other terms (witnessing tradition, a…