A star hanging in the east
This novel burns with the heat of the desert and I like this single star's fiery amplitude.
'... a single...
God’s royal artery
A compelling way to single out a great river and to map the world's waterways - as so many veins...
Of smoke and goats
A refreshing image for a choking smoke. I tried to find a picture of goats who looked as though smoke...
As big as …
A vivid way to vaunt the vastness of vine-fruit.
'The grapes seemed as big as twelve-year old boys.'
Source:...
Stuff-pocket Zebedee
A hard-dealing merchant who makes money hand over fist. His elderly wife Salome is a more impressive character, however.
'And...
When God mixes with man
An uplifting depiction of a potentially winning combination?
I also liked the intimacy and proximity implied here, not a distant...
Tear-shaped pellets
This is a Biblical land and so perhaps the tear-shaped scented cedar sap pellets came from Lebanon. Elsewhere the cedar...
Stiff-necked God
This is a tough God, stiff-necked here and elsewhere mentioned in the context of 'God-trodden chaos'. A curious image,...
Yeast needed
Liked this way of portraying a skinny, hollowed out man - made without leaven, flat as a pancake.
'A hairless,...
Newly-foliaged poplar
A curious tree for a Biblical era village, since the poplar isn't a tree you associate with the region. And...
As vindictive as…
Apologies to all camels if this sullies your good character, but I liked the simile and had fun finding a...
Man in a hurry
Jesus lays out a few ground rules to Judas whom, it seems, could have done with a dose of
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