RE: Fiction or non fiction?
February 22, 2016 at 3:31 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2016 at 3:31 pm by drfuzzy.)
Librarian here. Working in the Dewey Decimal System.
Dewey simply avoids the question by putting the Bible in it's own classification: 200. There are a series of subcategories (221-229) for individual copies of various books, and (usually) for works about individual books. This is a good thing, because trying to figure out where each individual book would actually go would drive you crazy. 892: Afro-Asiatic Literature? 933: Ancient Historical texts - Palestine.
Libraries tend to avoid the "fiction" issue entirely and just classify it as historical literature.
Me, if I could get away with it, I might make a special section in "mythology".
Dewey simply avoids the question by putting the Bible in it's own classification: 200. There are a series of subcategories (221-229) for individual copies of various books, and (usually) for works about individual books. This is a good thing, because trying to figure out where each individual book would actually go would drive you crazy. 892: Afro-Asiatic Literature? 933: Ancient Historical texts - Palestine.
Libraries tend to avoid the "fiction" issue entirely and just classify it as historical literature.
Me, if I could get away with it, I might make a special section in "mythology".
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