SOURCE: A review of The Book of God: A Response to the Bible, in Dalhousie Review, Vol. 68, No. 4, Winter, 1988, pp. 531–34.

In the following review of The Book of God: A Response to the Bible, Shankman asserts that although Josipovici's writing is uneven at times, he is ultimately successful with his arguments regarding Biblical interpretations.

Gabriel Josipovici, in his book, The Book of God: A Response to the Bible, wants us to learn how to read experientially, to truly read, for as he says in his Preface, The Book of God “is a book in the end as much about the nature of reading as about the Bible” (xiv). The reader of the Bible, if Josipovici is any example, should be brought “more fully to life” compelled to “want to let others share in the experience” (309). Such is Josipovici's mission to the reader:

Our task is to wrestle with...