This is a brilliant book. Anthony Harvey shows how thinking historically has changed our perceptions of scriptural authority, and he draws on his immense learning, lightly worn, to suggest how the Bible can inform and inspire Christians today...His sane, sober, and lucid grappling with contemporary problems leaves readers free to make up their own minds, armed with fresh considerations. It cannot be too strongly recommended.
-Robert Morgan
Linacre College, Oxford
Can we embrace a modern critical approach to the New Testament and yet still regard it as 'Holy Scripture'? Anthony Harvey shows that the New Testament, when interrogated critically, is much more reliable and inspiring than many scholars think.
-John Barton
Oriel College,
Oxford
"A timely and important book. With the grace, elegance, and profound but lightly worn scholarship that illuminate all of his writings, Harvey tackles head-on a subject of increasing centrality to theologians and New Testament scholars: how historical and therefore authoritatively 'holy' are the narratives and teachings about Jesus' ministry as recorded in the Gospels and by Paul?...Jews and Christians, believers and skeptics alike, will find these essays enlightening and of enormous value.
-David J. Goldberg
The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London