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Book Reviews by subject:
Bible

July 2024 Issue

Helen Bond

By Appointment of Rome

Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World

By Martin Goodman

July 2024 Issue

Orlando Reade

Rebel Verses

On the 350th anniversary of Paradise Lost

June 2024 Issue

Salley Vickers

In the Beginning

Reading Genesis

By Marilynne Robinson

November 2022 Issue

Daniel Rey

It’s the Way You Tell It

The Word: On the Translation of the Bible

By John Barton

April 2019 Issue

Richard Harries

Going off Scripture

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

By John Barton

June 2018 Issue

Salley Vickers

The Unauthorised Version

The New Testament: A Translation

By David Bentley Hart

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)

September 2017 Issue

Diane Purkiss

Origin of the Species?

The Rise and Fall of Adam & Eve

By Stephen Greenblatt

Paul Johnson

A Good Book

The Bible In English

By David Daniell

June 2003 Issue

Robert Chandler

The Right Word

Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible

By Adam Nicolson

November 2003 Issue

Alexander Waugh

The Man Behind the Miracles

The Authentic Gospel of Jesus

By Geza Vermes

July 2007 Issue

Edward Norman

What Next For God?

The Bible: A Biography

By Karen Armstrong

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