Gary A. Anderson

The Resurrection of the Son of God by n. t. wright. fortress. 740 pp. $39 The past decade or so has produced numerous challenges to reading the Bible as a trustworthy historical witness. Scholars in the field of Old Testament studies question every detail of the pre-exilic corpus. As for the New . . . . Continue Reading »

The Hidden Book in the Bible.By Richard Elliott Friedman.HarperCollins. 402 pp. $25. I  have used Richard Friedman’s best-selling book on source-criticism, Who Wrote the Bible?, in my introductory course for several years. Unlike most introductions to the problem of the Bible’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Of the many obstacles that the modern world has thrown up in front of Judaism and Christianity, certainly one of the most damaging would be the historical-critical method. This form of intellectual inquiry has transformed radically the manner in which modern persons construe the origins of Scripture . . . . Continue Reading »