In this excerpt from her new book on Leondard Cohen, Marcia Pally examines his use of Jewish and Christian biblical images in the singer-swongwriter’s lyrics.
Marcia Pally
Marcia Pally teaches at NYU and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the theology faculty at Humboldt University-Berlin, where she is an annual guest professor. She is the author of 14 books, most recently “White Evangelicals and Right-wing Populism: How Did We Get Here?” and “From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen."
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