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The Bible as a Great Book
Founding God’s Nation:Reading Exodusby leon r. kass yale, 752 pages, $40 Leon Kass, best known for his work in the field of bioethics, including his service on President Bush’s...
Heavenly Treasure
The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity by peter brown harvard, 288 pages, $24.95 In the opening pages of this book, Peter Brown declares...
Infinite Circle
Gratitude: An Intellectual History? by peter j. leithart? baylor, 350 pages, $49.95 Peter Leithart’s Gratitude: An Intellectual History is a creative, insightful, and ambitious book. It takes its point...
Homo Immolans
On Sacrifice by Moshe Halbertal Princeton, 152 pages, $24.95 Moshe Halbertal, a professor of Jewish thought at both New York and Hebrew Universities, writes books with very large theses....
Is Purgatory Biblical?
Nearly a decade ago Jerry Walls wrote an article for this magazine (“Purgatory for Everyone”) in which he encouraged his fellow Protestants to reconsider their aversion to the doctrine...
The Man Who Would Be King
1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $34.99 n He has never seen another field of study quite like it, says...
What Gallio Didn’t Know
The relationship of the Church to the social order has been long and vexed. At the forefront in the modern era has been the relationship of Church to state....
The Bible, Rated R
W.W. Norton, the publisher of R. Crumb’s best-selling The Book of Genesis Illustrated , was certainly aware of the reputation of the underground cartoonist”best known as the creator of...
The Quest for the Confessional Jesus
The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus by Dale C. Allison Jr. Eerdmans, 126 pages, $16 Christians have had good reason to be suspicious of the quest for the...
Collected Letters
The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus by Brevard S. Childs Eerdmans, 288 pages, $28 paper When the history of biblical scholarship for...
Faith & Finance
Swings in the business cycle are as psychological as they are economic. The Economist put the matter in sharp relief: “Much in modern economics is taken on trust. Even...
A Level Praying Field
Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought by Joshua A. Berman Oxford University Press, 264 pages, $39.95 In every nation but one of the ancient Near...
Scripture and Truth
The Nature of Biblical Criticism by John Barton Westminster John Knox, 206 pages, $24.95 John Barton, professor of Holy Scripture at Oxford University, is a leading biblical scholar. This...
And His Name Shall Be Called Emmanuel
The One Who Is to Come by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. Eerdmans, 224 pages, $18 Joseph Fitzmyer is one of the leading biblical scholars of the past generation. He...
Sure and Certain Hope
Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews _ by Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson _ Yale University Press, 304 pages, $30 The idea of the...
