Gary A. Anderson

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 sources, Friedman’s makes the work of several generations of biblical scholars . . . . Continue Reading »

The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox Knopf, 478 pages, $27.50 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 . . . . Continue Reading »