Biblical paraphrase

A biblical paraphrase is a literary work which has as its goal, not the translation of the Bible, but rather, the rendering of the Bible into a work that retells all or part of the Bible in a manner that accords with a particular set of theological or political doctrines.

[1] Such works "weave with ease and without self-consciousness, in and out of material from the volume we know between hard covers as the Bible ...(bringing it) into play with disparate sources, religious practices, and (prayers).

"[2] This type of work was the most common form of biblical literature in Medieval Europe.

[citation needed] The Historia scholastica was the most successful biblical paraphrase.

The Paraphrases of Erasmus are another notable work.