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Tag Archives: reading

How do you read the Bible?

September 11, 2018

Some recent discussions online about how we read the Bible made me remember a question a friend asked me a …

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Can We Read the Bible?

June 18, 2016

The scholar James Barr was once asked which of the English translations of the Bible gave the best account of …

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Honest to Poetry: The Bible as Literature

December 7, 2015

The Bible is a work of literature.  That’s a relatively uncontentious statement, but one which has made a major impact …

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Student Blogging: Veering Off Course

December 31, 2013

I’ve been delighted by the responses to my piece asking students about their blogging. A slew of people have emailed …

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Hate Reading and Bad Romance: Reading Honestly

December 20, 2013

This is my third piece about the “integrity” of discourse, sparked by a passage of Rowan Williams.  After I discussed …

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Talking Like A Book: Authors and Audiobooks

September 10, 2013

I really like audiobooks.  This probably shouldn’t surprise me as much as it does: after all, I work on performance …

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Reading the Classics, Rereading Ourselves

September 3, 2013

The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: ‘I’m rereading…’, never ‘I’m reading….’ Italo Calvino’s first …

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Hamlet and Harley Quin, or, “From Minor to Major”

February 25, 2012

Miss Climpson, Harley Quin, Joe Sixsmith, Montague Egg: if you’ve heard of these people you clearly have excellent taste.  If …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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