For People Who Devour Books

Aug 2005

Bernard Green

Was It All Just a Meme?

Bernard Green Following a Different Script

Bernard Green

In the Begining

Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures through the Ages

By Jaroslav Pelikan

Allen Lane 288pp £20 order from our bookshop

At a meeting in Oxford, two distinguished scholars, one a rabbi and the other a Catholic priest, were due to address an audience. The problem was raised of who should speak first. The rabbi, with an enigmatic smile, proposed that the priest speak first: ‘After all, yours is the older religion.’