Bible Stories
John Barton, 16 February 1989
The Book of God: A Response to the Bible
by Gabriel Josipovici.
Yale, 350 pp., £18.95, November 1988,0 300 04320 1 Show More
by Gabriel Josipovici.
Yale, 350 pp., £18.95, November 1988,
Who wrote the Bible?
by Richard Elliott Friedman.
Cape, 299 pp., £12.95, June 1988,0 224 02573 2 Show More
by Richard Elliott Friedman.
Cape, 299 pp., £12.95, June 1988,
“... instances the boy in the shirt in the garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14:51-2), discussed at length by Frank Kermode in The Genesis of Secrecy, and the man Joseph meets in a field at Shechem while he is searching for his brothers (Genesis 37:12-18). These characters should not be seen as interpolations, or as survivals of some ... ”