Bookshelf
Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.
My So-Called Biblical Life: Imagined Stories from the World’s Best-Selling Book by Julie Faith Parker ’83 (editor)
December 1, 2017
Tags Alumni Book
(Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2017)
The author asked 12 everyday people — from a physician, to an actor, to a prisoner serving a life sentence — to imagine themselves as “secondary” characters from stories in the Bible and then to reflect on those characters’ points of view. For example, the story of Adam and Eve told from the perspective of the serpent or the crucifixion of Jesus as witnessed by the centurion responsible for his execution. The results, as one reviewer noted, “are striking and at times unforgettable.”
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