Bible Review

Helmut Koester and Stephen J. Patterson, “The Gospel of Thomas—Does It Contain Authentic Sayings of Jesus?” BR 06:02.

Sapiential refers to things associated with the Wisdom tradition. A sapiential kingdom is a way of life or reality achieved through wisdom.

See Bruce Chilton, “The Son of Man—Who Was He?” BR 12:04.

An apocalypse (also sometimes called an apocalyptic) is a type of revelatory literature in which an otherworldly being reveals heavenly or eschatological secrets to a human recipient.

Eschatology refers to teaching about the last things, specifically to history’s consummation and the events directly associated with it.

See Carey A. Moore, “Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther,” BR 03:01.

The series is rivaled in total size only by John Singer Sargent’s cycle of murals for the Boston Public Library on the grandiose theme of the “Development of Religious Thought from Paganism to Christianity.”

This sculpture is visible in the photograph of Warhol’s studio.

Jack Miles, God: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1995). Reviewed in Bible Books, BR 12:02.

Midrashic interpretation departs from the plain sense or context of a Bible passage in order to fill in gaps, forge links with other parts of the Bible, or teach ethical and religious values.