SOURCE: A review of The Book of God: A Response to the Bible, in Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 110, No. 2, Summer, 1991, pp. 323–25.

In the following review, Fishbane places Josipovici's scholarship in the context of Biblical studies, arguing that The Book of God adds much to scholarly Biblical interpretation.

This new book [The Book of God] by the critic and novelist Gabriel Josipovici signals a turn in the wide-ranging discussion of the “Bible and Literature” and puts a little landscape into what had become a fairly flat topography. It arises for Josipovici out of a personal need to confront the Bible as a form of discourse and to ponder it as a species of literature. Thus at the center of the discussion is the old-new question of whether the Bible is a privileged or special discourse—and if so, how. As an old matter, the case was clear: Scripture...