Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl. By Craig Harline. Doubleday, 464 pp., $26.00.
A Day Apart: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath. By Christopher D. Ringwald. Oxford University Press, 336 pp., $27.00.
NOT ONE BUT TWO books about a single day of the week? I didn't plunge with much enthusiasm into either one. The topic seemed too massive (one day of the week totals one-seventh of human history!) or too ...