ABSTRACT
'Yours Faithfully' presents an anthology of virtual letters from the Bible, in which leading scholars imagine correspondence between biblical characters. Each letter conveys the insights that a given character might have and, together, the letters provide a rich sense of the concerns which propel and characters who inhabit the Bible. The letters are written in a range of styles - from the strictly historical to the very contemporary - and embrace the serious and the playful. The aim is to offer a commentary on familiar texts and events and to continue a long tradition of retelling stories from the Bible.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Salu Father of Zimri to Zur Father of Cozbi
(Numbers 25, with 12 and 31; Genesis 34 and 49; Exodus 2 and 4)
chapter |2 pages
The Big Fish to Jonah
chapter |5 pages
Nineveh to Judah
chapter |5 pages
Jeremiah to Ezekiel
chapter |2 pages
Haggai to Zechariah
chapter |2 pages
Zechariah to Haggai
chapter |4 pages
Esther to her Mother
chapter |3 pages
John the Baptizer to Jesus
chapter |6 pages
Jesus to his Mother
chapter |3 pages
Publius Philostratus to an Author
chapter |5 pages
‘Jezebel' of Thyatira to John of Patmos
‘Jezebel' of Thyatira to John of Patmos (Revelation 2.18–29)