Personification in the Bible Personification in the Bible Personification, the attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions and natural forces like seasons and the weather, is a literary device found in many ancient texts, including the Hebrew Bible and Christian New Testament. Personification is often part of allegory, parable and metaphor in the Bible. A famous example of personification is the personification of Wisdom as a woman in the Book of Proverbs, or natural forces in the Book of Job. An early example of zoomorphism in the Hebrew Bible is when sin is likened to an animal "crouching"
The Good Book (book) "Add to these ten injunctions, this: O friends, let us always be true to ourselves and to the best in things, so that we can always be true to one another." The book received a variety of different reviews. Writing in the "Evening Standard", David Sexton described the book as: "unreadable, not merely just because it is boring but because it is nauseating". A.N. Wilson, writing in "The Spectator", described the book as "baffling". Wilson questioned the need for a 'secular Bible' and the number of writers attributed within the work who were notably religious in outlook. Genevieve Fox, writing