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By Kimberly Winston | 17 hours ago
(RNS) For the first time since the last century, this years Nobel Prize in Literature went to an American writer singer, songwriter, author Bob Dylan.
At 75, Dylan is still filling concert halls and arenas and rocking late into the night. Hes been quoted in Supreme Court decisions, and St. John Paul II once built an entire homily on Dylans classic song Blowin in the Wind. The first volume of his memoirs, Chronicles, Volume One, was critically as well as popularly acclaimed when it appeared in 2004.
Scholars of Dylan and they are legion, with many offering entire courses on the singers record catalog have long highlighted the religious imagery of his work. From Old Testament references in All Along the Watchtower (1967) and A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall (1976) to the New Testament basis of Gotta Serve Somebody (1979) and the spiritual yearning of Thunder on the Mountain (2006), Dylans lyrics and music have long reflected his own restless, seeking soul.
Here are a few of the religious wanderings and explorations of the new Nobel Laureate in Literature, Bob Dylan:
Dylans given name is Robert Allen Zimmerman.
He was raised in a Jewish family in Minnesota and underwent a bar mitzvah ceremony at age 13. He married Sara Noznisky Lownds, who is also Jewish, and raised five children in the religion.
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(118,320 posts)Brettongarcia
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There Dylan insisted that lots of wars quoted religion, God, as their motivation. Many nations citing God as being on their side.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/withgodonourside.html
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(82,333 posts)Brettongarcia
(2,262 posts).. notes that Bob divorced his Jewish wife. And became Christian. And then later on, suggested he might not have faith at all.