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Friedman, David Noel, editor. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. (6 volumes) New York: Doubleday/Anchor, 1992. A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to phrases, names, and concepts. (Also available in CD-ROM format)
Friedman, Richard Elliot. The Disappearance of God. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1995. (Published in paperback under the title The Hidden Face of God. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.) Combining religion, science, history, and mysticism, the author addresses why God’s interaction with humans diminishes as the Bible progresses.
—. Who Wrote the Bible? New York: Summit Books, 1987; Perennial, 1989. An excellent overview of the question of the authorship of the Hebrew scriptures, particularly the Torah, or Books of Moses.
Gellman, Marc, and Thomas Hartman. How Do You Spell God? Answers to Big Questions from Around the World. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1995. A rabbi and Roman Catholic monsignor who co-host a radio program answer questions posed by children about such issues as religion and God.
Gomes, Peter J. The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart. New York: Morrow, 1996. The Minister to Harvard University discusses the history and the use—and abuse—of the Bible.
Gordon, Cyrus H., and Gary A. Rendsburg. The Bible and the Ancient Near East, 4th ed. New York: Norton, 1997. A fascinating overview of the relationship between the Bible and other civilizations of the area; scholarly but written for the lay reader.
Gribetz, Judah. The Timetables of Jewish History. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1993. A chronology of the most important people and events in Jewish history.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, new 3d rev. ed. New York: Touchstone, 1991.
Harris, Roberta L. The World of the Bible. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1995. An archaeological, geographic, and historical survey of the biblical lands, profusely illustrated with color photographs.
Helminiak, Daniel A. What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality. San Francisco: Alamo Square Press, 1994. A modern scholarly assessment of the key passages in the Bible that have traditionally been used to condemn homosexuality.
Hill, Jim, and Rand Cheadle. The Bible Tells Me So: Uses and Abuses of Holy Scripture. New York: Anchor Books, 1996. A popular overview of how the Bible has been used throughout history by preachers and politicians to support opposing positions on a wide range of controversial issues.
Hinnells, John R. Who’s Who of Religions. London: Penguin Books, 1996. Originally published in 1991 as Who’s Who of World Religions, a handy biographical dictionary of leading figures in world religions, ancient and modern.
Jefferson, Thomas. Introduction by F. Forrester Church. The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. Rejecting established Christianity, America’s philosopher-president attempted to distill the moral teachings of Christ as separate from the mystical accounts of his life and resurrection.
Johnson, George. Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order. New York: Knopf, 1995; New York: Vintage, 1996. A science writer for The New York Times, the author explores the intersection of modern physics and faith.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels. New York: HarperCollins, 1996; HarperCollins, 1997. Written in response to a recent outpouring of books about the “historical Jesus,” the author argues for the central importance of faith over “historical reconstructions.”
Johnson, Paul. A History of the Jews. New York: Harper & Row, 1987; Perennial, 1988. A survey of four thousand years of Jewish history.
Kaiser, Walter C., Jr., Peter H. Davids, F. F. Bruce, and Manfred T. Brauch. Hard Sayings of the Bible. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1996. A one-volume edition, comprising five separate volumes, that provides scholarly explanation of some of the Bible’s most troubling verses, with historical, linguistic, and cultural background provided. Written from