Elie Wiesel, who died on July 2 at age 87, was the worldwide symbol of the memory of the Holocaust, having survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and having written Night, the classic description of the horrifying experience of a Nazi concentration camp. To BAR and readers of its then-sister magazine Bible Review (Bible Review combined with BAR in 2006), Wiesel was known as a sensitive, insightful and wide-ranging Bible commentator. Probably the most eminent American Biblical scholar in the 1990s and 2000s was Harvard professor Frank Moore Cross, who often wrote for us. It would be a nice balance, I thought, if […]
