Humor smiles and chuckles and sometimes laughs so loud in virtually every book of the Bible, so it's remarkable how readers manage to overlook it. It's also unfortunate. Humor graces biblical texts at so many levels that to miss the humor is to miss not only much of the emotional impact of the Bible, but much of its meaning. Illuminating Humor of the Bible shows how–and how much–comic elements contribute to understanding the most vital ...
A Time to Live and a Time to Die will inspire its readers through a greater understanding of God's seasons for humanity as revealed by Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes. It describes in poetry and rhyme the ever-changing nature of the seasons yet their harmony and purpose. ...
The world–it is a place of mystery; religion a matter of faith. Yet all around us in the matrix of creation, animals, people, and personal experience the immanence of the Creator is present. More than that so is the Spirit who shapes the world, and Jesus the Incarnate, the Word of God and Redeemer of shattered relationships between God and all creation. We do not always have the clarity of experiencing God in the beauty or disorder of life, yet ...
The flashy poets and the poets with a schtick get the big audience, but it is the quiet poets whose individual poems more often linger with me. I'd trade all of Ginsberg, say, for William Bronk's six-line poem «After Bach,» which derives from the cello suites the lesson that sadness «can be in part /to accept the absence of One to say it to.» And it is Bronk whose work is called to mind for me by Yahia Lababidi's Barely There, in ...
Satan is not a theological concept, but a literary character. Systematic and pastoral theology struggles with the existence of Satan and at the same time, the devil inspires authors, poets, artists, and musicians–his true nature in art seems to be creative, even though he is usually associated with destruction. If we want to believe William Blake, the true poet is of the devil's party, without knowing it. The various accounts of the devil i ...
(Con)textos femeninos: Antologia de escritoras espanolas, Tomo I: De Al-Andalus hasta el siglo XVIII presenta poesia, drama y prosa de autoras de la Edad Media, el Renacimiento/Barroco y el siglo XVIII. Cada seccion tiene introducciones sociohistoricas que esbozan el contexto historico, el contexto social y el contexto de la mujer para situar la literatura. Se incluyen notas a pie de pagina en espanol para facilitar la comprension de los textos. ...
Scarlett Ward is an incredible young West Midlands poet as comfortable on the page as in performance, with a real ear for language and an imagination to match. Her debut collection, created with help and advice from Liz Berrry and others, doesn’t disappoint, as it takes its Insta-concerns (Scarlett has 10k+ followers) of depression, insecurity, mental ill-health and the deep and powerful ache of a love found, and turns them in to quite startling ...
Книга представляет собой увлекательный путеводитель по романам, которые любимы едва ли не каждым российским читателем; адресована она как специалистам, так и всем, кто готов вместе с автором вглядываться в текст и подтексты «Двенадцати стульев» и «Золотого теленка», в творческую лабораторию И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова. Статус заимствований и цитат в двух книгах соавторов – совершенно особый: ими прошита вся повествовательная ткань; это специальный, о ...
