The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye

This book investigates the literary features of the Bible without making the case that the whole Bible is poetry (or that the Bible should necessarily just be read as literature). This book is heavily invested in the ways that we communicate as humans (the metaphoric, metanymic, and descriptive modes of narrative) and in the typology of the Bible--the way that truth in the Bible is portrayed as relative to itself (so the Old Testament is fulfilled in the New Testament, and the New Testament is predicted by the Old Testament). The arguments are erudite and the book is informative.