Poetry

The Bible's one book of pure love poetry: the six-movement garden path from longing to the wedding to the seal upon the heart, the two refrains that carry it, and the church's two-thousand-year argument over what — and whom — it is really about.

Five Hebrew voices in verse — Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song — and how their poetry, built on paired lines, meets every season of a life.

The sequel to Jonah: the city that repented is judged a century and a half later. God who is slow to anger and will not at all acquit the wicked, the siege of Nineveh in the most kinetic battle poetry in the Twelve, and the comfort promised to the oppressed — a stronghold in the day of trouble.