Robert Atwan is the Series Editor of The Best American Essays and co-edits the successful Oxford textbook Popular Writing in America with Don McQuade.

"This volume is a useful reader to accompany primary formal texts in Biblical interpretation courses....The reader is introduced to little known authors whose interpretations of biblical texts are quite insightful."--Hal Warlick, High Point University"This is a rich collection that could be used effectively in literature and religion classes. Because it has the Bible as its focus, it may elicit more than passing interest from those who usually shy away from poetry."--Kliatt"Occasionally there appears a religiously oriented work of such originality and obvious usefulness that one wonders why no one did it before. A stellar example is Chapters Into Verse."--Publishers Weekly"Spiritually, stylistically and chronologically, the range is absolutely astonishing."--Parade Magazine

Robert Atwan is the Series Editor of The Best American Essays and co-edits the successful Oxford textbook Popular Writing in America with Don McQuade.

"This volume is a useful reader to accompany primary formal texts in Biblical interpretation courses....The reader is introduced to little known authors whose interpretations of biblical texts are quite insightful."--Hal Warlick, High Point University"This is a rich collection that could be used effectively in literature and religion classes. Because it has the Bible as its focus, it may elicit more than passing interest from those who usually shy away from poetry."--Kliatt"Occasionally there appears a religiously oriented work of such originality and obvious usefulness that one wonders why no one did it before. A stellar example is Chapters Into Verse."--Publishers Weekly"Spiritually, stylistically and chronologically, the range is absolutely astonishing."--Parade Magazine