What can we learn from the history of the Bible?

Jan 2, 2021 by

by Ian Paul, Psephizo:

All through this week, at 9.45 each morning, Radio 4 is playing abridged excerpts from Professor John Barton’s book The History of the BibleI have found it quite a mixed bag, with some helpful and interesting insights on the one hand, but also including some unhelpful and skewed opinions expressed as objective assessments (which they are not) mixed in. I previously commented on John Barton’s approach in reviewing an article in the Church Times earlier in the year here.

To supplement those earlier comments, I here republish with permission my friend Jeremy Marshall’s review of the book:

Read here

See also:  On not leaving the car in pieces on the garage floor – a review of John Barton’s A History of the Bible by Martin Davie

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