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Christian Origins: From Messianic Movement to Christian Religion
Christopher Rowland (Minneapolis, MN/Augsburg/London: SPCK, 1985) 448 pp., $16.95, paperback
Bible Review opens the realm of Biblical scholarship to a non-academic audience. World-renown scholars detail the latest in Biblical interpretation and why it matters. These important pieces are paired with stunning art, which makes the text come to life before your eyes. Anyone interested in the Bible should read this seminal magazine.
Christian Origins: From Messianic Movement to Christian Religion
Christopher Rowland (Minneapolis, MN/Augsburg/London: SPCK, 1985) 448 pp., $16.95, paperback
We’ve been listening to you, our readers, and this is what we’ve heard.
First, we don’t visit you often enough. Four times a year is so infrequent that sometimes when a new issue arrives, you forget who we are.
A team of Old Testament scholars at Westminster Theological Seminary, headed by assistant professor J. Alan Groves, has completed work on a computerized version of the Hebrew Bible.
Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves,
Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke.
Yet stay; let me not rashly call in doubt
Divine prediction…
… Then with what trivial weapon came to
hand,
The jaw of a dead ass, his sword of
bone,
A thousand foreskins fell, the flower of
Palestine,