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The Bible and Poetry

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A fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar. A fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar. The Bible is full of poems. In the Old Testament, there arethe Psalms and the Song of Songs, the great exhortationsand lamentations of the Prophets, and passages of poetrywoven in throughout. In the New Testament, Jesusdescribes the kingdom of heaven with poetic epithetssuch as "a treasure hid in a field," calling the Son ofGod "the true vine," "the light of the world," "the goodshepherd," and "the way, the truth, and the life." TheGospels reverberate with allusions to the poetry of theOld Testament; the last book of all is Revelation, a visionary poem. The Bible, in other words, asks to be readpoetically from start to end, and yet readers have rarelyconsidered what that might mean, much less heededthat call. In The Bible and Poetry, the poet and scholarMichael Edwards reshapes our understanding of theBible and religious belief, arguing that poetry is not anornamental or accidental feature but is central to both.He speaks personally of his early, unanticipated, transformative encounters with scripture. He offers close,insightful, and resonant readings of biblical passages.Poetry, as he sees it, is the vital and necessary mediumof the Creator's word, and the truth of the Bible is not aquestion of precepts and propositions but of a directexperience of its poetry, its power.

About the Author :
Michael Edwards is an Anglo-French poet and scholar. Born in Barnes, London, he is the author of twenty books and the first English person ever to have been elected to the Coll ge de France and to the Academie Francaise. Stephen E. Lewis is a professor of English at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, and a translator of French literature.

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"The conviction that drives this quite personal and quite passionate book . . . is that the Bible must be received as it presents itself—as a text thrumming through and through with the vibrations of poetry, which alone has the power to signal the invisible that secretly sustains the world." —Anne-Marie Pelletier, Études


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781681376370
  • Publisher: New York Review Books
  • Publisher Imprint: NYRB Classics
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1681376377
  • Publisher Date: 15 Aug 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y


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