Among the prophetic books of the Old Testament, no other equal Isaiah's brilliance of style and metaphor, its arresting vision of the Holy One of Israel, and its kaleidoscopic vision of God's futur…
The book of Ruth is a tale of charm and delight. Goethe called it "the loveliest complete work on a small scale, handed down to us as an ethical treatise and an idyll." Another writes, "No poet in …