• Books of the Bible are not the compilations, i.e. they are not the unordered collections of earlier texts, as it was assumed by Formgeschichte (see H. Gunkel)
• Books of the Bible are the compositions, i.e. the logical structures of elements–pericopes, structures given by the last editor of each book (R. Meynet – French biblical scholar):
  • Biblical texts were composed and well composed.
  • There is a specifically Hebrew rhetoric, i.e. the complex of Hebrew ways of thinking and composing of literary works, which are different to the classical Greek rhetoric.
  • One ought to rely primarily to the text, and very carefully take into account the corrections drifted on the text by the representatives of the historical–critical method.

Note:
These problems are discussed for example here:

• Roland Meynet, Rhetorical analysis: an introduction to biblical rhetoric – click, please!
• Paul E. Koptak, Rhetorical Analysis: An Introduction to Biblical Rhetoric, “Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society”, Sep 2000 – click, please!
• S. E. Porter, The rhetorical analysis of scripture, 1995