This essay wants to examine Leland Ryken's work in the context of recent literary approaches to hermeneutics. The author surveys Ryken's methodology together with two other literary critics, Amos Wilder and Northrop Frye. They approach the biblical text with similar assumptions about its literary nature. However, each differs in his overall view of the nature of the Bible and the manner in which imagery and symbolism are used in the Bible. Finally, the view of each author is applied to Revelation.