Let There Be Light: Poems

by Philip Appleman

Book Overview

First edition, uncorrected proof. HarperCollins representative's card stapled to the front wrapper. Fine in printed wrappers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006096832X
• ISBN13: 9780060968328
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is great stuff and really makes a lot of sense.

Bible literalists will hate this book, but how can anyone with a modicum of common sense really believe the story of Jonah and the Whale, Noah and the Ark, Adam and Eve, and other Bible stories that make no sense whatever when they are subject to rational analysis. They simply have to be treated as allegories, an inference that Appleman makes plain in his treatment of these accounts in the Jewish Bible. And he does it with great humor and perceptiveness. I hope he comes up with another book of poems based on the Bible and other religous themes, and shows how utterly ridiculous some of them are. Christians who are allowed to think for themselves, I am sure, will find Appleman's perceptions eminently reasonable and acceptable.