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The Prophet’s Pen

A new book argues that the key to decoding the Bible is understanding its poetry
By Adam Kirsch | 7:00 AM Nov 17, 2009

The quickest way to understand the audacity and originality of what David Rosenberg is attempting in A Literary Bible, the big book of his selected translations from the Hebrew Bible, is to read the introduction to his excerpt from the book of Jeremiah. To countless generations of Bible readers, Jeremiah has been a prophet—indeed, ...