From: The Christian Century | Date: September 25, 1996| Author: Kiker, Charles | COPYRIGHT 1996 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Mark D. Nanos. Fortress, 435 pp., $18.00 paperback.

OCCASIONALLY a book comes along that changes the way we read our basic texts. As a result of this volume, I will never again read the Pauline Epistles as setting aside the Torah. The author of this iconoclastic work is not a member of the academy but a businessman who has personally experienced Jewish-Christian tensions. His studies in Judaica and the Holocaust made him fear that the widespread understanding of the for...