"The Prophets," by Robert Jones Jr. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 400 pages, $27) In his debut novel, “The Prophets,” Robert Jones Jr. ambitiously reimagines a past in the antebellum American South and ...

Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...

The holiest day in the Jewish calendar is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, with its theme of repentance. And one of the synagogue readings for Yom Kippur is the Book of Jonah (in Hebrew, sefer Yonah) ...

Although “The Prophets” is his debut novel, Robert Jones Jr. is no stranger to critical thinking in craft, criticism and analysis. Jones, and his stunner of a novel, embody what can only be called art ...

Robert Jones Jr.'s The Prophets showcases big love and big pain: Review Debut novelist Robert Jones, Jr. crafts a new kind of epic in The Prophets, a queer love story set against a brutal historical ...

An artistic representation of Jesus Christ at the Cathedral of Cefalù, in Italy, c 1130. | Andreas Wahra / CC BY-SA 3.0 In The Second Book of Prophets, Malayalam writer Benyamin employs his formidable ...

In 1916, Alfred A. Knopf, then 23 and a newcomer to the book-publishing business, was introduced to a Lebanese artist-poet in a Greenwich Village cafe. Knopf had never heard of Kahlil Gibran, but his ...

In the Bible, Isaiah and Samuel are prophets, men considered to be proclaimers of the will of God. In Robert Jones Jr.’s bewitching literary debut “The Prophets,” these names take on a new ...

This is French artist James Tissot’s depiction of the prophet Malachi, who predicted the arrivals of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ. Tissot lived from 1836-1902. (Courtesy Photo) As the Old ...

The importance God attaches to the office of prophet and the prophetic ministry is revealed in His Word in Amos 3:7, to wit, 'Surely the Lord God does nothing, ...