Literary Revelations: On William Franke and the Bible
Over the past half-century, literary approaches reinvigorated biblical studies. They did not reject the regnant source criticism, but they did reject its worst tendency to treat the…
King Lear: The Virtues that Come from Nothing
Return to Zero: Lear and Gloucester After raving through suffering and storm, King Lear is seared by an insight, one as dramatic as the lightning flashing in…
The Roof-Watcher
After the Agamemnon of Aeschylus Late afternoon of that unending year’s first day, I cringed at clangs, at god strikes tumbling mountaintops, Atremble for my distant lord’s…