Jessica Jacobs

2 months ago | christiancentury.org | Jessica Jacobs |Mac Loftin |Brandon Ambrosino |Brian Bantum

When Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation was published in 2018, I quickly became consumed by his poetic renderings of scripture. Before I knew it, I was writing persona poems of biblical prophetesses like Miriam, Abigail, and Huldah. Thus, when I learned about Jessica Jacobs’s new poetry collection, which rescues biblical narratives from dogmatism and some of their women from obscurity, I was all in.