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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.
Nathan Gilmour interviews Steven G. Ogden about his recent book "The Church, Authority, and Foucault."
Do not think any man happy until he has died, free from suffering. That line, or something like it depending on the translator, ends...
Slogans have always occupied our public attention, and the ways that an enemy redefines a slogan can be as important as the phrase’s original...
