“The Grammar of God” by Aviya Kushner is Ms. Kushner’s experience reading the Bible in English for the first time. Ms. Kushner isn’t an immigrant, in face she’s from New York, but until she began graduate school she had never read the Bible in a language other than Hebrew. When she begins her class on the English Bible, she learns, from the very first verse in Genesis, that the experience of reading the Bible in English is not the same as she has experienced the […]
Grammar(s) of God
Because of scheduling conflicts, we’ve had to merge June and July’s books for our friend book club. A has chosen The Grammar of God to complement What Is the Bible? and I believe their thematic similarities will provoke an interesting discussion next week. At the very least, the more memoir and academic focus of this book gave me a lot to think about. Aviya Kushner had done journalism in Israel and was on a plane back to New York on September 11, 2011. She decided […]