An Amputated Bible, Peradventure?

I am sure that a recent writer spoke for many when, under the title “Overcoming the Leviticus Syndrome,” he wrote: “We find ourselves lost in a maze of laws and rituals that confuse, frustrate and, at times, quite frankly bore us.”1 The publishing house of Simon and Schuster has come up with a radical solution: Eliminate the “boring” passages from the Bible. It has reissued E. S. Bates’s The Bible To Be Read as Living Literature (1936) with “updated scholarship” and a new introduction by Lodowick Allison. The result is a ponderous volume of 1,258 pages containing a grotesquely dismembered […]