From the Book - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Who Is the Snake in the Garden of Eden? : A thought experiment / Avi Steinberg
Abraham, Isaac, and Us : (And Hagar and Ishmael and Trayvon and Michael Brown, too) / Michael Eric Dyson
My Father's Commandments / Jane Leavy
He who struggle with God / Alex Wilkinson
Deuterogeniture, or how I killed my grandmother / André Aciman
The best Jew in the family / Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
Come on in, the water's fine / A.J. Jacobs
Desert stories / Kathleen Norris
The book of Ruth / Lois Lowry
Why psalms is my favorite biblical book / Reverend Al Sharpton
A reading of the shepherd's psalm / Lydia Davis
Guilty feet have got no rhythm / James Parker
The song of songs / Pico Iyer
The valley of dry bones / Samuel G. Freedman
The book of Jonah: a postmodern exegesis / Daniel Menmaker
New moon haftorah / Robert Pinsky
The good thief / Ian Caldwell
The womb and the cistern cell / Brooks Hansen
Sermon on the mount / Jay Parini
This saying / Ian Frazier
Never quite as simple / Owen King
Long road home: thoughts on the prodigal son / Tobis Wolff
The beloved disciple / Colm Tóibín
The parables of Jesus of Nazareth / Rick Moody
A matter of infinity / Clyde Edgerton
The beginnings of the end / Paul Elie
Resurrection / Kerry Kennedy
A voice from Heaven / Edwidge Danticat
Living on the ledge / Lauren Slater
The bad book / Robert Coover.
