Why read The Grammar of God?

Book cover of The Grammar of God: A Journey Into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

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Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of it by heart - and was therefore surprised when, while getting her MFA at the University of Iowa, she took the novelist Marilynne…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Grammar of God as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Anna E. Hampton

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I think of Aviya as a book friend. Reading her made me laugh aloud, and I want to meet her over coffee. I could relate to her shock that most families don’t discuss ancient Hebrew grammar at home—I can’t imagine not discussing theology on a daily basis, and my own children had to learn that our home life isn’t common, either.

I appreciated her intellectual honesty and enjoyed seeing the Bible through her eyes and life experience, as a Jew who had only ever read it in Hebrew before starting graduate school. She made me appreciate the Bible in new…

From Anna's 3 favorite reads in 2023.