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Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community

by Howard Clark Kee (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1995), 280 pp., $32.50

Kee incorporates the contributions of anthropology, archaeology and other disciplines to suggest new ways of understanding the ways post-Exilic Judaism and early Christianity defined and established their identities as communities of faith.

The Bible: New Testament

(New York: Holt, 1995), 272 pp., $27.95

King James Version excerpts—half from the Gospels, half from Acts, the Epistles and Revelation—attractively produced and generously illustrated.

Final Account: Paul’s Letter to the Romans

by Krister Stendahl (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995), 85 pp., $9

Stendahl examines Romans as Paul’s explanation of his apostolic mission to the gentiles and reveals that mission’s central place within Pauline theology.

The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood

ed. by Howard G. Baetzhold et al. (Atlanta: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1995), 400 pp., $29.95

Adam and Eve, Methuselah, Satan and Noah’s son Shem tell what biblical times were really like, as Twain explores with irreverent humor what the Old Testament left unsaid.