Pomegranate Gospel: Bible Revivals for Secular Tastes By Gary Hoffman
Pomegranate Gospel: Bible Revivals for Secular Tastes By Gary Hoffman Paperback 0937363081 9780937363089 Religion Pomegranate Gospel: Bible Revivals for Secular Tastes Pomegranate Gospel offers both humorous and heartfelt commentary through a variety of styles and forms—memoirs, literary analysis, epistles, narratives, engagements with the visual arts—that keeps one a little off balance to bring the reader into a new awareness of the Bible’s secular richness. Many obstacles prevent us from approaching the Bible as literary text, yet when these are removed, we find a surprising, hilarious, and deeply meaningful book. Pomegranate Gospel transforms our experiences with one of the most widely known but least understood works in print. The book reveals many different facets of God, ranging from insecure in Genesis, neurotic in Exodus, clever in Jonah, to loving in Ruth; considers conflicting depictions of Jesus’s wit and creativity in the Gospel of Mark versus the witlessness of the Gospel of John; discusses amazingly complex psychological and political portraits of David in Samuel; explores powerful depictions of existential dread in Job, Jonah, and Ecclesiastes; and highlights the surrealist sensibility in Judges and Revelation.
Pomegranate Gospel offers both humorous and heartfelt commentary through a variety of styles and forms memoirs literary analysis epistles narratives engagements with the visual arts that keeps one a little off balance to bring the reader into a new awareness of the Bible s secular richness Many obstacles prevent us from approaching the Bible as literary text yet when these are removed we find a surprising hilarious and deeply meaningful book Pomegranate Gospel transforms our experiences with one of the most widely known but least understood works in print The book reveals many different facets of God ranging from insecure in Genesis neurotic in Exodus clever in Jonah to loving in Ruth considers conflicting depictions of Jesus s wit and creativity in the Gospel of Mark versus the witlessness of the Gospel of John discusses amazingly complex psychological and political portraits of David in Samuel explores powerful depictions of existential dread in Job Jonah and Ecclesiastes and highlights the surrealist sensibility in Judges and Revelation Pomegranate Gospel Bible Revivals for Secular TastesAfter a year in architecture at UC Berkeley Gary Hoffman studied writing and literature at UCLA where he received his BA and MA After finishing PhD course work at USC with an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies he started a long career as a member of the Orange Coast College English department His study of the Bauhaus approach to design at UC Berkeley influenced his methods for teaching writing in 1984 he wrote WRITEFUL a new approach to writing creative non fiction His wife Glynis helped to develop these ideas further and in 1997 Gary and Glynis coauthored ADIOS STRUNK WHITE A HANDBOOK FOR THE NEW ACADEMIC ESSAY ADIOS is a resource book for teachers and writers that has also been used as a textbook at major colleges and uni After a year in architecture at UC Berkeley Gary Hoffman studied writing and literature at UCLA where he received his BA and MA After finishing PhD course work at USC with an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies he started a long career as a member of the Orange Coast College English department His study of the Bauhaus approach to design at UC Berkeley influenced his methods for teaching writing in 1984 he wrote WRITEFUL a new approach to writing creative non fiction His wife Glynis helped to develop these ideas further and in 1997 Gary and Glynis coauthored ADIOS STRUNK WHITE A HANDBOOK FOR THE NEW ACADEMIC ESSAY ADIOS is a resource book for teachers and writers that has also been used as a textbook at major colleges and universities Now with over forty years teaching literature art criticism and some studio art Hoffman is well positioned to unravel the literary treasures of the Bible in his book POMEGRANATE GOSPEL BIBLE REVIVALS FOR SECULAR TASTES By offering both humorous and personal commentary through a variety of styles and forms memoirs literary analysis epistles QAs narratives engagements with the visual arts this book uses many of the approaches explained in ADIOS STRUNK WHITE to keep the reader a little off balance to open up a new awareness of the Bible s secular richness site_link
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