Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible

Robin Lane Fox, Robin Lane Fox. Vintage Books USA, $18 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74406-1

Fox reads biblical texts closely, helping neophytes to probe the historical veracity of the Bible. But his arguments are also curiously diffuse, and the bulk of them will be known to Bible students. BOMC alternate in cloth. (June)

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