A remarkable book reconstructs the mysterious paths of the Bibles, that is, twenty-three centuries of intricate routes, daring and courageous passages, far-sighted visions, and almost ...

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...

‘One hundred years from my day,” Voltaire is supposed to have remarked, “there will not be a Bible on earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker.” Things haven’t worked ...

Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and God’s Last ...

Readers of the Bible are thus invited to engage in a double act of moral imagination. First, they must imagine that they themselves, and not merely their ancestors, were redeemed from slavery in Egypt ...