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At the Start: Genesis Made New
trans. by Mary Phil Korsak
(New York: Doubleday, 1992), 252 pp., $22
Korsak recreates the account of Genesis in an English translation that preserves the syntax, style and intent of the original Hebrew—revealing an ethos, a God and a people foreign, primal and altogether different from what we have long accepted from traditional translations.
From Creation to New Creation: Old Testament Perspectives
by Bernhard W. Anderson
(Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1994), 272 pp., $16
In this collection of essays, BR columnist Anderson attempts to bring creation theology out of its obscurity: demonstrating how science does not negate creation; reconsidering the creation texts to develop a new way of understanding the creation story in the evolution debate; and interpreting these texts in light of today’s ecological crisis.
Gospel Truth? New Light on Jesus and the Gospels
by Graham Stanton
(Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1995), 223 pp., $25
In the December 1995 BR, Stanton’s article, “A Gospel Among the Scrolls?” addressed the question of whether a fragment of the Gospel of Mark was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and whether that fragment and three fragments of the Gospel of Matthew date to the mid-first century A.D., significantly earlier than the date assigned by most scholars. Gospel Truth? evaluates the arguments for and against this early date.
Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth
by Burton L. Mack
(New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 335 pp., $22
Mack challenges readers to understand each gospel as the product of divergent communities who told the story of Jesus to distinctively different audiences at a far remove from the actual events. The New Testament can best be understood as a dynamic myth, Mack argues, telling us no more about historic personages than the Iliad and the Odyssey tell us about Greek and Trojan personages.
At the Start: Genesis Made New
