Reviews: Fashioning a New Bible: Why and How?

Ronald Hendel has written a wonderfully erudite book about the arcane world of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. He demonstrates mastery of the subject on every page, as he cites not only the standard surveys of the field (from Julius Wellhausen of yore to Emanuel Tov of today), but also more obscure and narrower studies on particular passages, along with general treatments that reach beyond Biblical studies into other fields within the humanities. With such an opening paragraph, one might expect me to give this book a glowing review. And, of course, I would, except that I personally […]