An Invitation to Biblical Poetry Two Horizons Series Preface

Series Preface

As with other volumes in the well-received Encountering Biblical Studies series

has written for newspapers and magazines around the world and has translated the works of several Christian authors into Italian

Though known mainly for his sermons

An Invitation to Biblical Poetry Two Horizons Series PrefaceAn Invitation to Biblical Poetry is an accessibly written introduction to biblical poetry that emphasizes the aesthetic dimensions of poems and their openness to varieties of context. It demonstrates the irreducible complexity of poetry as a verbal art and considers the intellectual work poems accomplish as they offer aesthetic experiences to people who read or hear them. Chapters walk the reader through some of the diverse ways biblical poems are