SOURCE: A review of The Book of God: A Response to the Bible, in Interpretation, Vol. 44, No. 3, July, 1990, p. 318.

In the following review, Milavec offers a positive assessment of The Book of God, complimenting the work as an “exemplary text.”

Josipovici is currently Professor of English at the School of European Studies, University of Sussex. In the preface to his book [The Book of God], he explains that he never mastered the Bible in the way he had mastered Chaucer and Proust, even though he was aware that the Bible contained narratives “far fresher and more ‘modern’ than any of the prize-winning novels rolling off the presses” (p.x). To rectify this deficiency, Josipovici learned Hebrew and Greek and digested nearly a hundred books and articles dealing with biblical studies.

At the beginning of his book, Josipovici raises the related questions of how the Bible constitutes “a sacred...