Title:
The good book : writers reflect on favorite Bible passages
Author:
Blauner, Andrew, editor.
ISBN:
9781476789965
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2015.
Physical Description:
xvii, 298 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Who Is the Snake in the Garden of Eden? : A thought experiment / Noah / Abraham, Isaac, and Us : (And Hagar and Ishmael and Trayvon and Michael Brown, too) / My Father's Commandments / He who struggle with God / Deuterogeniture, or how I killed my grandmother / The best Jew in the family / Come on in, the water's fine / Desert stories / The book of Ruth / Why psalms is my favorite biblical book / A reading of the shepherd's psalm / Guilty feet have got no rhythm / The song of songs / The valley of dry bones / The book of Jonah: a postmodern exegesis / New moon haftorah / The good thief / The womb and the cistern cell / Sermon on the mount / This saying / Miracles / Never quite as simple / Long road home: thoughts on the prodigal son / The beloved disciple / The parables of Jesus of Nazareth / A matter of infinity / The beginnings of the end / Resurrection / A voice from Heaven / Living on the ledge / The bad book
Abstract:
A collection of previously unpublished pieces by 32 of today's most prominent writers shares their thoughts about biblical passages they find personally meaningful, in a volume that includes contributions by such figures as Edwidge Danticat, Tobias Wolff and Ian Frazier.
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