From Publishers Weekly
Reynolds Price argues that John bar Zebedee, the Beloved of Jesus, wrote the Gospel according to John; Marina Warner points to misogyny in Paul's First Epistle to Timothy; Anthony Hecht cites incidents of anti-Semitism committed in Christ's name. PW called this an "earnest, scholarly complement to David Rosenberg's Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible. "
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This collection of essays, intended as a companion to Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible ( LJ 11/15/87), is not a work of scholarly introduction or exposition but of reflection. Each contributor interacts with an assigned text to determine the contemporary significance of the New Testament. While some more or less repeat the substance of their text, others deemphasize what is written and instead focus on their own response. There are, of course, treatments that combine the two. Views of the New Testament writings evoke reactions both positive and negative. There are occasional insights worth searching for, but as a whole this work is recommended only with reservations.
- Craig W. Beard, Harding Univ. Lib., Searcy, Ark.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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