Author - Dr. Donald E. Gowan

"This book ranks among the best introductions to the intertestamental period...we do not hesitate to recommend this work as an elaborate study of a well-informed author."

Journal for the Study of Judaism

"Gowan's 'reappraisal' is his attempt (successful, I believe) to deal with the Judaism of this period with empathy, without Christian polemics, and in the light of recent evidence. This volume is enhanced by good basic bibliographies and a fine selection of photos, maps, charts, and other illustrations.... Teachers looking for a single introduction to the history of this period will want to consider this well-written and well-informed volume."

Religious Studies Review

"This is an extremely successfu evocation and evaluation of what the author is no longer willing to call 'intertestamental period' (the fruit of a dozen years of teaching a course so named).... Everything here is well done, and the whole can be highly recommended as a sophisticated textbook. A select bibliography follows each individual section."

Old Testament Abstracts

"This is not a monograph in the usual sense of the term. Instead it is a really first-rate textbook, intended primarily for undergraduate students but containing many insights that their teachers will value...this can be recommended without reserve as a readable and very judicious introduction to a difficult period."

The Society for Old Testament Study

"The difficult postexilic period of Old Testament history is described clearly, with a good sense for pertinent details by Donald E. Gowan.... After covering the history (pp. 11-160), the author investigates: institutions like home, religion, government, and education; literature like the Septuagint, Old Testament canon, apocrypha, mishnah, and Talmud; theological strata like wisdom, torah, and new beliefs."

The Bible Today

"...[Gowan] should be commended for writing a thorough, careful, and eminently readable introduction to this massive subject."

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

When Man Becomes God by Dr. Donald E. Gowan

Jesus Christ and the Faith by Philippe H. Menoud
The Personalist Challenge by Maurice Nedoncelle
Informal Groups in the Church
P.T. Forsyth
The Path to Transcendence by Paul Henry
Signs and Parables by Jacques Geninasca, A. J. Greimas
Structuralism and Biblical Hermeneutics
The Samaritan Problem by John Bowman
The Semiotics of the Passion Narrative by Louis Marin
The Bursting of New Wineskins by Carl A. Raschke
Semiology and Parables
Hellenistic Mystery-Religions by Richard Reitzenstein
Exegesis
Karl Barth In Re-View
Worship and Reformed Theology by Dr. Jack M. Maxwell
The Reformed Roots of the English New Testament by Irena Backus
Scripture in Context
Rhetorical Criticism
The Fruit of Lips by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Reformatio Perennis
The Fourth Gospel and the Jews by John Bowman
The Future of the Church by Francois C. Gerard
The Tale of the Tell by Paul W. Lapp
The Emergence of Contemporary Judaism, Volume 2 by Phillip Sigal
The New Testament and Structuralism
When Man Becomes God by Dr. Donald E. Gowan
The Emergence of Contemporary Judaism, Part I and II by Phillip Sigal
Intergerini Parietis Septvm (Eph. 2:14)
Manipulated Man
Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism by Erhardt Güttgemanns
Structural Analysis and Biblical Exegesis by R. Barthes, F. Bovon, F. J. Leenhardt, R. Martin-Achard, J. Starobinski
Scripture in History and Theology
Crux Imperatorum Philosophia by Robert G. Heath
Bridge Between the Testaments by Dr. Donald E. Gowan
Liberation Theology and the Message of Salvation
Orientation by Disorientation
From Faith to Faith