Category: book review
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Review of the Book, written in Hebrew, “Writings of the New Testament as Jewish Literature,” All Israel News Staff, Late April 2025
ALL ISRAEL NEWS, co-founder and editor-in-chief of which is political analyst and author, Joel Rosenberg, is a web-based news service that covers news and events impacting Israel & the Middle East for the Evangelical world, according to its website. The following article is a synopsis of a review written by Dr. Ishay Rosen-Zvi, professor of…
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The Haywire Heart
I read this book several years ago while I was still able to maintain the extreme endurance exercise routine of running/cycling that I had engaged in for 40+ years. For this very reason, the book’s subtitle, “How too much exercise can kill you, and what you can do to protect your heart,” had caught my…
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Book Review: God Was Not In The Fire – The Search For A Spiritual Judaism by Daniel Gordis
I began studying Biblical Hebrew seriously when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced a hiatus from the daily requirements of work and other mandatory activities. This enabled me to devote more time to other pursuits, one of which was the desire to gain a level of proficiency in biblical Hebrew, the primary language in which the Old…
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Book Review: Russia in Search of Itself by James Billington
An American scholar with a deep interest in Russian culture, particularly as it relates to the country’s Christian heritage as expressed through Russian Orthodoxy, James Billington was perhaps the foremost chronicler of Russia and its history for over 40 years. Billington first appeared on my radar in the mid-1970s while I was studying Russian Language…
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Book Review: Autopsy of an Empire – The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Jack Matlock, Jr.
Jack Matlock served as U.S. Ambassador to Russia during the final years of the Reagan administration and the first year of the Bush I administration, from 1987 to 1991. During that time, according to his account, despite the many duties falling to him to perform in Moscow, he managed to visit each of the union…
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Book Review: Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War, by Ken Adelman
Ken Adelman’s masterpiece, running to a quite manageable 375 pages including notes and a bibliography, uses the October 1986 meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev as the springboard to prove his thesis that it was indeed the catalyst for…
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One Holy Catholic Church – Not!
This post is the result of having just read two volumes that offer convincing arguments against the quasi-ecclesiastical organization (this nomenclature is mine and should not be attributed to the authors) called the Roman Catholic Church: A Primer On Roman Catholicism by John Gerstner; and, Evangelical Answers: A Critique of Current Roman Catholic Apologists by…
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Book Review: Melanchthon, The Quiet Reformer by Clyde Leonard Manschreck
Most of us who have an interest in the period of the Protestant Reformation have heard of Philip Melanchthon, but how many are aware that the surname Melanchthon is an ancient Greek translation, and a sort of cryptonym, for the German Schwarzterdt meaning ‘black earth,’ which was the surname with which he was born. [Note:…
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Book Review: Martin Luther – The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
While reading three biographies of William Tyndale, each of the authors made a point of mentioning that in the course of translating the same into English, Tyndale had made extensive use of Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek. Since the Tyndale biographies’ focus centered on his love for…
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Book Review: William Tyndale
by J. F. Mozley This is the last of a trilogy of biographies I have read on William Tyndale. There is afourth biography, written by Robert Demaus in 1886, which served as one of themain sources of the present volume, written by Mozley in 1934. I decided toread Mozley’s biography of Tyndale because just as…
The Dragon is Slain 