From God to Verse: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, in Rhyme

"From God To Verse" is a faithful line-by-line translation of the Five Books of Moses -- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy -- into verse. The content of the original is all there, but the language has been modernized for greater accessibility, and presented in iambic heptameter. The book also contains a child-friendly summary of each chapter, written in 4-8 lines of iambic tetrameter that precede each chapter's main text. The book is, essentially, a Torah/Bible that has been made friendlier without losing a single line of content. Four sources were used in creating this translation: 1) The Five Books of Moses, by Everett Fox (Schocken Books) 2) The JPS (Jewish Publication Society) Torah - (1962 edition) 3) New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (expanded edition, revised standard version). 4) King James Version Bible

Seth Brown is an award-winning writer and poet. From 1997-2000, his rhyming column ＂Issue of the week＂ appeared on Sundays in Rhode Island’s largest paper, the Providence Journal. In 2001, he was named Poet Laureate of the Williams College Debate Society, in 2003 and 2006, he won BBSpot’s Annual Limerick Contest, and in 2004, became a Contributing Editor to the OEDILF (Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form). He took 3rd place in the 2008 Western Massachusetts Poetry Slam Competition, and frequently wins local poetry slams. Outside of the poetry world, Seth’s work has appeared in various places ranging from the Washington Post’s Style Invitational to USA Today. He has held humor columns in publications such as JVibe Magazine and the Berkshire Advocate, and currently writes his award-winning column ＂The Pun Also Rises＂ for the North Adams Transcript. He is the author of Think You’re The Only One? (Barnes & Noble, 2004) and Rhode Island Curiosities (Globe Pequot Press, 2007).