Description: 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. It includes the Psalms and the Song of Songs of course, but poetry also plays an immense part in the Prophets and shows up in the books of the Old Testament. The New Testament, for its part, reverberates with allusions to the poetry of the Old Testament and concludes with Revelation, a visionary poem, while Jesus, seeking to open his listener’s eyes to the kingdom of heaven, describes it with the poetic epithet of “a treasure hid in a field,” while the son of God is the “true vine,” “the light of the world,” “the good shepherd,” “the way, the truth, and the life.” The Bible, in other words, asks to be read poetically throughout, and yet readers have rarely considered the implications of that, much less heeded its call.
In The Bible and Poetry, the poet and scholar Michael Edwards seeks to transform how the Bible and Christianity are understood, arguing that poetry is not an ornamental or accidental feature of the Bible but is central to its meaning. The creative use of words that is poetry is the necessary medium of the Creator’s word, and belief emerges not from precepts and propositions but out of the lived experience—this is what the Bible offers above of all—of the power of that word.
Price: 16.33 USD
Location: 07001
End Time: 2025-01-12T10:42:06.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Bibles and Poetry
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Comparative Literature, Biblical Commentary / General, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Literary Criticism, Religion, Poetry
Item Weight: 7.5 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Michael Edwards
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
![The Apocrypha 1929 By Bible, Ot, Apocrypha. [Leather Bound]](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LEcAAOSwnbdmzYRB/s-l600.webp)
