Description: "The vividness and beauty of the language emerge in a fresh way . . . with evocative simplicity." --Robert Alter, professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature, University of California, Berkeley
Brief description: Willis Barnstone, professor, poet, and scholar, is the author of eighty volumes, including The Restored New Testament, The Gnostic Bible, The Poems of Jesus Christ, The Poetics of Translation, and Mexico in My Heart: New and Selected Poems. He lives in Oakland, California, and Paris.
Review Quotes:
This lovely and ecumenical volume beautifully illustrates Barnstone's overarching conviction that the Bible contains some of the world's greatest - and sometimes underappreciated - poetry. Highly recommended.