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Peter S. Hawkins

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Professor Hawkins’ work has long centered on Dante, most recently in Dante’s Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination , The Poets’ Dante: Twentieth-Century Reflections , co-edited with Rachel Jacoff, and Dante: A Brief History . The poet features as well in his expansion of his 2007 Beecher Lectures on Preaching in Undiscovered Country: Imagining the World to Come . His research in the history of biblical reception has led to three co-edited volumes to which he also contributed essays, Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs , Medieval Readings of Romans , and From the Margin I: Women of the Hebrew Bible and their Afterlives . Together with Paula Carlson he has edited the Augsburg Fortress four-volume series, Listening for God: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith. He has also written on twentieth-century fiction , utopia , and the language of ineffability . Professor Hawkins’ essays have dealt with such topics as memory and memorials, televangelism, scriptural interpretation, and preaching. He writes regularly for The Christian Century’s ”Living by the Word” column and has work forthcoming in Religion and Literature, Modern Language Notes and The Yale Review. From 2000 to 2008 he directed the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts at Boston University. While at BU he won the Metcalf Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He has served on the editorial boards of PMLA and Christianity and Literature and on the selection committee both of the Luce Fellows in Theology and of the Dante Society of America.

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Peter S. Hawkins

Peter S. Hawkins

Books from Peter S. Hawkins

Dante: A Brief History

Listening For God, Vol. 4

Dante’s Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination

Listening for God, Vol. 2

The Language of Grace: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Iris Murdoch (Seabury Classics)

Undiscovered Country: Imagining the World to Come

Listening for God, Vol. 3

Inferno e Paraíso

Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs

The Bible in the American Short Story

From the Margins 1: Women of the Hebrew Bible and Their Afterlives

Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith)

Anglican Theological Review: Spring 2017: Volume 99, Number 2