Bible Review

See Antje Krug, Heilkunst und Heilkult: Medizin in der Antike, 2nd ed. (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1993).

See Ángel Gil Modrego, Estudio de leµb/ab en el Antiguo Testamento: Analisis sintagmático y paradigmático, dissertation, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

See my “‘Brain’ and ‘Nerve’ in the Biblical Outlook,” Biblica 74 (1993), pp. 577–597.

Wes Bodin and Less Smith are authors of a social studies curriculum series, Religion in Human Culture, (five “kits,” one on religious perspectives and four on world religions). Each of the kits includes samples of various literatures. It is one of the few examples, to this writer’s knowledge, that has other sacred scriptures ready to teach in a public school setting.

Thayer S. Warshaw, “Preparation for Teaching About Religions in Public Schools, Religious Education 81.1 (Winter 1986), pp. 79–92.

Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis, et al., Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives, 2 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1974 and 1982). The 600 pages of these texts have many analyses of Bible stories treated as literature.

See Thayer S. Warshaw, Handbook for Teaching the Bible in Literature Classes (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1978). For a summary of these approaches and further discussion of the political implications, see Charles R. Kniker, Teaching About Religion in the Public Schools (Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa, 1985), pp. 18–27.

AASA, Religion in the Public Schools (Arlington, VA: American Association of School Administrators, 1986), pp. 25–46; ASCD, Religion in the Curriculum (Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1987), pp. 28–29.