Scholars now believe that the stories that would become the Bible were disseminated by word of mouth across the centuries, in the form of oral tales and poetry – perhaps as a means of forging a ...
Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...
Born into a Baptist family in 1891, Hurston learned about the Bible from her father, John Hurston, who served as a minister at a church in Eatonville, Florida. “You wouldn’t think that a ...