cover image Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible

Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible

. Harvest Books, $14.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-15-622040-8

Here, 37 modern Jewish poets, novelists and critics add their biblical interpretations to countless precedents in an uneven omnibus. ``At its most personal and contemporaneous, the collection soars,'' noted PW , singling out pieces by Max Apple, Anne Roiphe, Jay Neugeboren and Francine Prose. (Sept.)