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April 2019 Issue Richard Harries Going off Scripture A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths By John Barton LR
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October 1998 Issue Muriel Spark An Unknown Author Who Put God in His Place The Book of Job By Unknown (Translated and introduced by Raymond P Scheindlin) LR
September 2017 Issue Diane Purkiss Origin of the Species? The Rise and Fall of Adam & Eve By Stephen Greenblatt
June 2003 Issue Robert Chandler The Right Word Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible By Adam Nicolson LR
November 2003 Issue Alexander Waugh The Man Behind the Miracles The Authentic Gospel of Jesus By Geza Vermes LR
February 2014 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Narrative Arks The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood By Irving Finkel
August 2013 Issue Eric Ormsby Found in Translation The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the ‘People of the Book' in the Language of Islam By Sidney H Griffith LR
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