From Eden to Exile
By Eric H. Cline Washington, DC: National Geographic Books, 2007, 256 pages $26 Reviewed by John Merrill Books about Bible “mysteries” typically fall into two broad categories: those claiming with...
View ArticleThe Passion and The Nativity
The Passion by Geza Vermes London: Penguin, 2005, 133 pp. 6.99£ (paperback) The Nativity by Geza Vermes New York: Doubleday, 2007), 192 pp. $17.95 (paperback) Reviewed by John Merrill Another book on...
View ArticleNew Perspectives on Resurrection
The Resurrection: History and Myth by Geza Vermes New York: Doubleday, 2008 192 pp. $18.95 (hardcover) Jesus, the Final Days: What Really Happened by Craig Evans and N.T. Wright Louisville:...
View ArticlePompeii Awakened
by Judith Harris New York: Palgrave Macmillan; London: I.B. Tauris, 2007, 320 pp. $35.00 (hardcover) Reviewed by John Merrill What, you might reasonably ask, does a book about the eruption of Mt....
View ArticleThe Last Ember
by Daniel Levin New York: Riverhead Books, 2009, 418 pp. $25.95 (hardcover) Reviewed by John Merrill The Last Ember by Daniel Levin is an archaeology adventure novel, in the same genre as, for...
View ArticleThe First Christmas, The Last Week and The Meaning of Jesus
The First Christmas by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan New York: HarperCollins, 2007, 272 pp. $22.95 (hardcover) The Last Week by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan New York: HarperCollins,...
View ArticleJerusalem’s Temple Mount
by Hershel Shanks New York: Continuum, 2007, 206 pp. $39.95 (hardcover) Reviewed by John Merrill Biblical Archaeology Review editor Hershel Shanks has taken on a formidable challenge. His subject,...
View ArticleThe Historical Jesus: An Essential Guide
The Historical Jesus: An Essential Guide by James H. Charlesworth (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008), 131 pp., $18 (softcover) Reviewed by John Merrill This book, part of Abington Press’s Essential...
View ArticleThe Sisters of Sinai
The Sisters of Sinai The Sisters of Sinai How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 316 pp., $27.95 (hardcover) by Janet Soskice Reviewed by John Merrill...
View ArticleMerrill’s Letter
What a great article on Mt. Gerizim! I have a question, however. Magen states that his excavations reveal that the Temple on Gerizim was built in the time of Nehemiah, and he cites Nehemiah 13:28 as...
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