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A review by lizshayne
The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible by Aviya Kushner
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Okay so I feel like I've been leaning into "nonfiction by women that strives for subjectivity" and this does not disappoint.
There's this weird thing where I am very much not the target audience (as, um, someone who knows Hebrew and spends a fair amount of time with Jewish texts) so it's what do I think of what she thinks non-Hebrew speakers see in Tanakh. Which is cool.
It's the memoir part that stands out to me, the texts in the contexts of growing up religious and the way they become part of one's life.
I also love a good literary analysis and this book does have a lot of those. You kind of have to love pilpul though.
There's this weird thing where I am very much not the target audience (as, um, someone who knows Hebrew and spends a fair amount of time with Jewish texts) so it's what do I think of what she thinks non-Hebrew speakers see in Tanakh. Which is cool.
It's the memoir part that stands out to me, the texts in the contexts of growing up religious and the way they become part of one's life.
I also love a good literary analysis and this book does have a lot of those. You kind of have to love pilpul though.