Bible Review

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.

Footnote 1 - Sung Sermons

Encaustic refers to a paint in which beeswax and resin have been added to the pigment. After application to a wooden panel, it is fixed by heat. This process was used on the famous Fayum mummy-portraits of the first and second centuries A.D. (Fayum is about 50 miles south of Cairo) and on early icons.

Footnote 1 - Is Everybody a Bible Expert?

Grace Schulman wrote, “Bloom’s vision that the J author was a privileged and erudite woman is startling but convincing.…” Northrop Frye wrote, “The Book of J clearly highlights one of the major problems in Western culture: the fact that the Jehovah [sic] of the Old Testament is not a theological god at all but an intensely human character as violent and unpredictable as King Lear.” And Richard Howard wrote, “To read Bloom here is to become, a while, incandescent.”