Robert Alter, "Strong as Death is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, Daniel"
A love poem that has always challenged our conceptions of what the bible should be about begins this volume of Robert Alter's "first literary translation of the Hebrew Bible since the King James Version."
Marc Chagall Meeting of Ruth and Boaz, 1960
Falling asleep while reading scripture might risk eternal damnation, so medieval monks took distraction very seriously.
Approaching painful inner darkness as a help rather than a hindrance for personal growth.
Was biculturalism merely an artifact of 1980s activism? That question shapes haunts the story of his John Bluck's life's work.
The deliberate roughness and immediacy of the evangelists will shock you awake from the many sleep-inducing modern translations.
The spiritual writings of Henri Nouwen compiled into prayers and spiritual exercises for each of the canonical hours.
"a sweeping and informative portrait of a faith that has shaped the western world and beyond”
“Do you ever find yourself worried about what others think of you? … Maybe those thoughts occupy a lot of your waking (and dreaming) time and when they rear their heads, chase any other more positive thoughts out of your mind?”
From the words of Job , to the teen favourites in the Song of Songs, and to the words of Ecclesiastes, the poetic light shines in the first literary translation of the Hebrew Bible since the King James Version.
“I believe … for millennia, aspiring believers like me have found solace amidst their struggle by reciting these words together, Sunday after doubt-filled Sunday, century after sin-ridden century, always hoping for redemption and always hoping that the words might be true."
“By light we do our work. By that same light others behold it. And all of the light is borrowed from God.”
The first church in Aotearoa-New Zealand was a missionary church. It still survives to this day.
Can an ancient document settling religious wars and controversies help us navigate our fragmented and over-opinionated times?
In our affluenza, we all live like Kings nowadays, and all need to be challenged by prophetic ministry to bring us back to God.
The devastating stories of Hagar in Genesis 16:1 and Genesis 21:9-21 contain not only the first annunciation in the bible but also the first experience of God in the wilderness - experiences that many identify with to this day.
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