Let me introduce Bible Review by making a confession surprising for the editor of a new magazine. I have difficulty describing what kinds of articles this new magazine will contain. I find that I must describe the contents either very generally or very specifically. On the one hand, I can say that Bible Review will bring to the layperson first-rate scholarship in biblical studies, written with clarity by the scholars themselves (strangely enough, no nondenominational magazine now does this). Or I can describe the specific articles, for example, the ones in this issue. But nothing in between. When I […]
