دانلود کتاب Heaven and Earth, Law and Love: Studies in Biblical Thought

This volume contains eight essays by the author on a wide range of interesting but not related biblical topics including: "Air in Biblical Thought," "The Land of Milk and Honey," "Reopening the Case of Jonah vs. God," "Women's Marital Rights," and "You Shall Not Covet." Some of these essays and pieces of others have been published previously. While the collection here is more eclectic than unified, it is convenient to have this author's lifetime of meditations on various biblical texts and interpretive problems in a single book.

In many ways, scholarly treatments of the Bible today tend to be overspecialized and too rarely engage broader intellectual concerns. However, Levine takes the reader on many exciting and fascinating pathways through the text and Western civilization. He is obviously a very learned person with wide ranging reading habits and thus one finds many golden nuggets along the way. This is particularly true in the essays that deal directly with or impinge upon legal issues, the area in which one senses Levine's greatest depth and deepest passion. Thus his article on "Women's Marital Rights" is balanced and very thoughtful.