For some, storytelling has long been one of humanity's tools for understanding the past and its truth. Whether spanning ...

It is hard to deny that in many respects the Bible is the most unliterary work of literature that we have. Saint Augustine, already in the late fourth century AD, confessed that biblical style ...

The special problem which I shall examine is the persistence of power of which I have just spoken. To simplify the discussion I shall confine myself to the poetry, which though not the key to the ...

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In Bible and Poetry, Michaël Edwards focuses on those books of the Old Testament with a pronounced lyrical character, such as the Song of Songs and the Psalms, and he remarks the points where the ...

There are modern scribblers, from John Steinbeck to Bob Dylan, John Barth to Tim Rice, who have fashioned modern parables out of the ancient cloth of the Bible. Few are the writers, however, who are ...

Caeli Faisst was an undergraduate at SUNY Fredonia in the 2010s when her fiction professor posed a question to the class: Do you hold books sacred? Of course, they said, although they didn’t offer a ...

Interpreters of Genesis 22:1-19, which details Abraham’s near sacrifice of his only son on Mount Moriah, usually focus on the awesome loyalty and faith of our forefather. But Isaac’s role also invites ...