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a spooky read about death and the underworld in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ugarit, and in Isaiah 1–39 in honor of spooky szn!

de Hulster’s helpful, straightforward definition of iconographic exegesis (for all those interested): “the explanation of (Hebrew) Bible texts with the help of pictorial material which is culturally as close as possible to the text studied” (102).

sadly, have to return this one to the library :/ but enjoying it so far!

“Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.”

“66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl … From all of these the people are in flight, and they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight.” (128)