The good book : writers reflect on favorite Bible passages / edited by Andrew Blauner.
Contributor(s): Blauner, Andrew [editor.]
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xvii, 298 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781476789965; 1476789967Subject(s): Bible as literatureDDC classification: 220.6 LOC classification: BS535 | .G66 2015Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 East | BS535 .G66 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903423750 |
The good book: an introduction / Adam Gopnik -- Who is the snake in the Garden of Eden? : a thought experiment / Avi Steinberg -- Noah / Charles McGrath -- Abraham, Isaac, and us : (and Hagar and Ishmael and Trayvon and Michael Brown, too) / Michael Eric Dyson -- My Father's commandments / Jane Leavy -- He who struggles with God / Alec Wilkinson -- Deuterogeniture, or How I killed my grandmother / André Aciman -- The best Jew in the family / Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts -- Come on in, the water's fine / A.J. Jacobs -- Desert stories / Kathleen Norris -- The book of Ruth / Lois Lowry -- Why Psalms is my favorite biblical book / Reverend Al Sharpton -- A reading of the Shepherd's Psalm / Lydia Davis -- Guilty feet have got no rhythm / James Parker -- The song of songs / Pico Iyer -- The valley of dry bones / Samuel G. Freedman -- The book of Jonah: a postmodern exegesis / Daniel Menaker -- New moon haftorah / Robert Pinsky -- The good thief / Ian Caldwell -- The womb and the cistern cell / Brooks Hansen -- Sermon on the mount / Jay Parini -- This saying / Ian Frazier -- Miracles / Thomas Lynch -- Never quite as simple / Owen King -- Long road home : thoughts on the prodigal son / Tobias Wolff -- The beloved disciple / Colm Tóibín -- The parables of Jesus of Nazareth / Rick Moody -- A matter of infinity / Clyde Edgerton -- The beginning of the end / Paul Elie -- Resurrection / Kerry Kennedy -- A voice from Heaven / Edwidge Danticat -- Living on the ledge / Lauren Slater -- The bad book / Robert Coover.