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Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community
by Howard Clark Kee
(New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1995), 280 pp., $32.50
Kee incorporates the contributions of anthropology, archaeology and other disciplines to suggest new ways of understanding the ways post-Exilic Judaism and early Christianity defined and established their identities as communities of faith.
The Bible: New Testament
(New York: Holt, 1995), 272 pp., $27.95
King James Version excerpts—half from the Gospels, half from Acts, the Epistles and Revelation—attractively produced and generously illustrated.
Final Account: Paul’s Letter to the Romans
by Krister Stendahl
(Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995), 85 pp., $9
Stendahl examines Romans as Paul’s explanation of his apostolic mission to the gentiles and reveals that mission’s central place within Pauline theology.
The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood
ed. by Howard G. Baetzhold et al.
(Atlanta: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1995), 400 pp., $29.95
Adam and Eve, Methuselah, Satan and Noah’s son Shem tell what biblical times were really like, as Twain explores with irreverent humor what the Old Testament left unsaid.
The Postmodern Bible: The Bible and Culture Collective
by George Aichele et al.
(New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1995), 400 pp., $35
Ten authors describe seven methods—among them post-structuralist criticism, psychoanalytic criticism and feminist criticism—by which our culture interprets the Bible.
Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America
by James D. Tabor and Eugene V. Gallagher
(Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1995), 260 pp., $24.95 (cloth)
The fiery end of the Branch Davidian compound can be traced to the failure of federal agents to understand David Koresh’s apocalyptic worldview, the authors contend.
Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community
