Friedman delves deeply into the history of the Bible in a scholarly work that is as exciting and surprising as a good detective novel. Who Wrote the Bible? is enlightening, riveting, an important c…
This book points the way to a different reading of Scripture, one that raises fresh questions for the contemporary reader: power, liberation, justice and preeminently, connectedness. The author's r…
Whereas the world at large treats Judaism as the religion of the Old Testament, "the fact is otherwise. Judaism inherits and make the Hebrew Scripture its own, just as does Christianity. And just a…
This book offers the best current handling of Pentateuchal traditions as they operated in the past and as they help the church now. Hans Walter Wolff sees Israel's faith tradition as a continuous k…