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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.
Michial Farmer interviews Zena Hitz about her recent book "Lost in Thought."
Walter Brueggemann did not only teach me to read the Bible: he taught me to read. In the twenty-two years since I first read...
“I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom.” When I first read those words from St....
