With forty years of experience in teaching literature, as well as art history and studio art, Gary Hoffman is well positioned to unravel the literary treasures of the Bible.

Pomegranate Gospel offers both humorous and heartfelt commentary through a variety of styles and forms—memoirs, literary analysis, epistles, Q&As, narratives, engagements with the visual arts—that keeps one a little off-balance to bring the reader into a new awareness of the Bible’s secular richness. Many obstacles prevent us from approaching the Bible as literary text, yet when these are removed, we find a surprising, hilarious, and deeply meaningful book.