NYT Books in Review: “How To Read The Bible,” “The Stillborn God”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Plotz-t.html?pagewanted=print
How To Read The Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now, by James Kugel
“A former professor of Hebrew backs modern scholarship, disdains fundamentalism and holds on to God…[Kugel] wants to reclaim the Good Book from both the literalists and the skeptics.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Goldstein-t.html?pagewanted=print
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West, by Mark Lilla
“Mark Lilla argues that the separation of church and state was not, as some would have it, a foregone conclusion…The West has separated politics from theology, but the urge to mix them…is almost irresistible.”
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