Christian Humanist Profiles 257: David Jasper

April 08, 2024 01:03:46
Christian Humanist Profiles 257: David Jasper
Christian Humanist Profiles
Christian Humanist Profiles 257: David Jasper

Apr 08 2024 | 01:03:46

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Nathan P Gilmour

Show Notes

Taken down to their etymological components, scriptures are any written texts and literature is any human craft involving letters, usually of some alphabet or another.  But etymological roots don’t go far making sense of the fascination and the division and the devotion and the emotion that literature and scriptures bring forth in readers of all sorts.  David Jasper has spent a career examining the literary character of Christian and Jewish Scriptures, the strange gravitational influences those Scriptures have exerted on recent literature, and all kinds of likewise compelling things, and his new collection of essays Scripture and Literature: A David Jasper Anthology traces some of the big questions that he’s pursued over the years for the benefit of just those readers, including us.

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