Dante's Testaments Essays in Scriptural Imagination

"Surely Hawkins's contribution . . . will stand as one of the offerings most deserving of the laurel wreath the poet himself desired. As one who has regularly led seminarians on Dante's pilgrimage for over twenty-five years, the adjectives that kept recurring as I read Dante's Testaments were: erudite, engrossing, and elegant."-Anglican Theological Review "This is a book written from deep love of Dante and an equally deep learning . . . A beautifully written book, accessible to the general reader, but fascinating and insightful for the scholar, both literary and theological."-Theological Book Review "[T]houghtful, illustrative, and beautifully written . . . Hawkins's work presents a fitting tribute to Dante's poem while unveiling its author's own lifelong passionate engagement with it."-Speculum: Journal of Medieval Studies