Review of Henning Graf Reventlow’s “The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World” from the Westminster Theological Journal 49.1 (Spring 1987)

“Peter Enns, professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary, has written what I expect to be an important contribution to theologically orthodox Protestant understandings of Scripture.”

Biblical scholar Robert Alter’s major new English translation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible – alternately called the Five Books of Moses, the Torah or Pentateuch – has some critics manning the barricades while others are applauding…