The Business of Bible Translation

by John Wilson

Daniel Taylor’s novel Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees asks readers who believe that the Bible really is “the Word of God” to think carefully about what that entails. Continue Reading »

15 May 2020

Tobit or Not Tobit

by Jonathan Reimer

As Iain Provan observes in his recent book The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture, the Protestant reading of Scripture lies “in some disarray.” Historical-critical readers, intent on recovering original texts and authorial meanings, have undermined the ability of Scripture to . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

Rebekah's Ultrasound

by Deborah Warren

Jacob and Esau struggled in the womb right from the start. Rebekah’s ultrasound, quite early on, revealed the embryos: yin and yang, two fat big-headed commas grappled together head to toe;Rebekah only twenty weeks along,they were duking it out in there already. The sonogram was the usual fuzzy . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2020

Christmas Guide to Buying a Bible: 2019 Edition

by J. Mark Bertrand

A list of Bibles to give as gifts during the Christmas season.  Continue Reading »

9 Dec 2019

The Epistle of James in the Current Crisis

by Peter J. Leithart

The Epistle of James, as understood within its first-century context, is still relevant today.    Continue Reading »

2 Aug 2019

Word for Word

by Paul V. Mankowski

The Hebrew Bible:  A Translation with Commentary by robert alter norton, 3500 pages, $125 In 1582, Catholic scholars in exile at Rheims published an English version of the New Testament prefaced by a lengthy explanation and defence of their rendering, which, they said, accorded with the rule of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2019

What Are Biblical Values?

by Peter J. Leithart

A new book marginalizes the Bible's ethical claims in the public square. Continue Reading »

19 Jul 2019

Heroic Domesticity

by Peter J. Leithart

Proverbs’s epic poem throws our own cultural battles into high relief.  Continue Reading »

24 May 2019

Allah's Mercy and Wrath

by Gabriel Said Reynolds

God in the Qur’an by jack miles  knopf, 256 pages, $26.95 Jack Miles, a former Jesuit seminarian turned author and editor, is best known for God: A Biography. In his latest book, he compares the gods of the Qur’an and Bible, with sympathy for the former. Instead of addressing the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019

The Church’s Book

by Michael C. Legaspi

The Bible in a Disenchanted Age:  The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith by r. w. l. moberly baker, 240 pages, $24.99 The Book of the People:  How to Read the Bible by a. n. wilson harper, 224 pages, $26.99  The Bible and the Believer:  How to Read the Bible Critically & . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2018