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The Bible and Poetry

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Description:The Bible is full of poems. It includes the Psalms and the Song of Songs of course, but poetry plays an immense part in the prophets and shows up in the historical books of the Old Testament. The New Testament, for its part, reverberates with allusions to the poetry of the Old and concludes with Revelations, 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 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 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.Michael Edwards is professor of English literature at the Collège de France in Paris, poet, critic, and the first British subject to be elected to the French Academy. In 2016 he published Bible et poésie, which was released in English in 2022.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Bible and Poetry. To get started finding The Bible and Poetry, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 192

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: NYRB Classics

Release: 2023

ISBN: 1681376377

Description: The Bible is full of poems. It includes the Psalms and the Song of Songs of course, but poetry plays an immense part in the prophets and shows up in the historical books of the Old Testament. The New Testament, for its part, reverberates with allusions to the poetry of the Old and concludes with Revelations, 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 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 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.Michael Edwards is professor of English literature at the Collège de France in Paris, poet, critic, and the first British subject to be elected to the French Academy. In 2016 he published Bible et poésie, which was released in English in 2022.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Bible and Poetry. To get started finding The Bible and Poetry, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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