Bible Review

Marcia Falk, Love Lyrics from the Bible: A Translation and Literary Study of the Song of Songs (Sheffield: Almond Press, 1982). Much additional material has been anthologized in A Feminist Companion to the Song of Songs, ed. Athalya Brenner (Sheffield Academic Press, 1993).

Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives, Overtures to Biblical Theology 13 (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984).

On Reagan and dispensationalism, see the somewhat polemical account in Grace Halsell, Prophecy and Politics: Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War (Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1986), “Reagan: Arming for a Real Armageddon,” pp. 40–50.

James Barr, Fundamentalism (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978), pp. 191–207 detail “Dispensationalism.” See esp. p. 195.

A variety of evangelical responses, all sharing a high view of biblical authority but critical of literalism, appear in Jack Rogers, ed., Biblical Authority (Waco, TX: Word, 1977).

John C. Vander Stelt, Philosophy and Scripture; A Study in Old Princeton and Westminster Theology (Marlton, NJ: Mack, 1978) ch. V and VI, pp. 90–200 detail the development of Princetonian biblicism. A contemporary defense is John D. Woodbridge, Biblical Authority (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1982).

Walter Lippman, American Inquisitors (New York: Macmillan, 1928), p. 63.

For Bryan’s views on Literalism, see Lawrence W. Levine, Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade, 1915–1925 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), pp. 247, 281 and 292.

George F. Parker, Recollections of Grover Cleveland (New York, 1911), p. 382.

Reported in Chautauqua Assembly Herald 17, no. 14 (4 August 1892), p. 382.