More in ‘prophecy’

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, ...

These days, you don’t see many prophetic poems, and so it’s worth remembering that there was a time when vision and verse enjoyed a successful marriage. In the Bible, the pronouncements of the Hebrew prophets were sometimes laid out in prose, but they sounded most powerful as poetry—in part because of the particular kind of ...