The Bible is Art is the website to accompany the YouTube channel that explores the literary art of the Bible.
In the book The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Meir Sternberg has a chapter on gaps in stories. He says that
"Iago" (from Shakespeare's Othello) comes from Welsh and Galician and means "Jacob." This makes sense given that Jacob deceives his brother just like Iago deceives Othello. But there might be another meaning.
Robert Alter taught us but the first words and the first actions of the characters are important for their characterization, revealing depths about who they are and not surface details.
It is commonly observed that Revelation is cyclical, covering the same period (normally from Christ's 1st to 2nd coming) from different perspectives.
Head A His head and hair were white as white wool, white as snow; Face B his eyes were like a flame of fire,
