Perspective

With this issue, Bible Review completes its second year of publication.

And we have already established ourselves as a unique magazine. Nowhere else is the layperson exposed to the range of biblical subject matter found in Bible Review.

We are for people who love the Bible—all of it not just the more familiar stories of Genesis and the Gospels. We cover those too, but we also look into the nooks and crannies, into the byways of the Book, into its history and context and the way it was put together. We explore things like why the last verses of Chronicles are repeated as the first verses of Ezra, and the different ways the sensuous love poetry of the Song of Songs has been interpreted, and, coming in future issues, the puzzling questions that have been raised about the Book of Esther, and the strange world of the letter of Jude.

Bible Review is also unique from the scholars’ viewpoint. Never before has there been a publication in which Bible scholars can present their ideas to a wide lay audience—an audience that can understand and appreciate these ideas so long as they are expressed with grace and clarity.

Bible Review is unique in other ways as well. It makes learning enjoyable, even fun—Bible quizzes; Bible contests; book reviews; letters to the editor, both extravagant and foolish, insightful and wise; illustrations by the world’s greatest artists, superbly reproduced; thoughtful ruminations by some of the most renowned scholars.