BOOK REVIEWS

The Bible and the Narrative Tradition. Edited by Frank McConnell. Pp.152, Oxford University Press, 1987, £15.00. Haggai, Zechariah 1–8 (Anchor Bible). By Carol L. Meyers and Eric M. Meyers. Pp.xcv, 478, New York, Doubleday, 1987, $20.00. The Qumran Community (Cambridge Commentaries on Writings of the Jewish and Christian World 200 BC to AD 200, 2). By Michael Knibb. Pp.xi, 275, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £32.50/£12.95. John (Word Biblical Commentary 36). By George R. Beasley-Murray. Pp.ccii, 441, Waco, Texas, Word Books, 1987, no price given. Im Anfang war das Wort: Textlinguistische Studien zum Johannesprolog (Stuttgarter Bibelstudien 106). By Michael Theobald. Pp.146, Stuttgart, Katholisches Bibelwerk GmbH, 1983, no price given. Im Anfang war der ‘Johannesprolog’. Das urchristliche Logosbekenntnis die Basis neutestamentlicher und gnostischer Theologie (Biblische Untersuchungen 17). By Peter Hofrichter. Pp.481, Regensburg, Friedrich Pustet, 1986, DM48. Jesu Zeichen im Johannesevangelium (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 26). By Wolgang J. Bittner, Pp.xi, 334, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1987, DM 78. The Christocentric Literary Structure of the Fourth Gospel (Analecta Biblica 117). By George Mlakuzhyil, S.J. Pp.xx, 370, Rome, Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1987, L.45,000. The Hierarchy of Truths according to Yves Congar, O.P. (Analecta Gregoriana 246). By William Henn. Pp.xii, 272, Rome, Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 1987, L.95,000. The Theological Aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. By Louis Roberts. Pp.v, 266. Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America Press, 1987, $36.95. The Wisdom of Science: Its Relevance to Culture & Religion. By Hanbury Brown. Pp.ix, 194, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £20.00/£6.95. A Philosophy of Human Hope. By Joseph J. Godfrey, Pp.xiv, 272, Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1987, no price given. Incarnate Love: Essays in Orthodox Ethics. By Vigen Guroian. Pp.xii, 212, University of Notre Dame Press, 1987, $24.95. On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Edited by Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey. Pp.x, 657, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1987, $35.00 (hardback) $24.95 (paperback). Medical Research with Children: Ethics, Law and Practice (Oxford Medical Publications). Edited by Richard H. Nicholson. Pp.xii, 256, Oxford University Press, 1986, £12.50. Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies (Past and Present Publications). Edited by David Cannadine and Simon Price. Pp.xi, 349, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £25.00. Plato on Justice and Power: Reading Book I of Plato's ‘Republic’. By Kimon Lycos. Pp.ix, 201, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987, £27.50. Aristotle: the Power of Perception. By Deborah K. W. Modrak. Pp.x, 249, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1987, £23.95. The Hellenistic Philosophers, Vol.I: Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical Commentary. By A.A. Long and D.N. Sedley. Pp.xv, 512, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £35.00/£15.00. Hegel's Critique of Kant. Edited by Stephen Priest. Pp.xii, 229, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, No price given. The Letters of St Cyprian of Carthage, Vol. 3: Letters 55–66 (Ancient Christian Writers 46). Translated and annotated by G.W. Clarke. Pp.vi, 345, New York, Newman Press, 1986, $24.95. St Gregory of Nazianzus: Three Poems (The Fathers of the Church 75). Translated by D.M. Meehan, OSB. Pp.xiv, 142, Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 1987, no price given. The Orthodox Liturgy: The Development of the Eucharistic Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite. By Hugh Wybrew. Pp.x.189, London SPCK, 1989, £8.95. Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe. By Joseph H. Lynch. Pp.xiv, 378, Princeton University Press, 1986, £39.00. Excommunication in the Middle Ages. By Elisabeth Vodola. Pp.xiii, 281, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986, £29.95. The Architecture of Solitude: Cistercian Abbeys in Twelfth-Century England. By Peter Fergusson. Pp.xxv, 188 (+ 140 plates), Princeton University Press, 1984, £64.50. Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles. Edited by Christopher Norton and David Park. Pp.xix, 453, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £60.00. Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality). Translated by G.R. Evans, Introduction by Jean Leclerq. Pp.296, Mahwah (NJ), Paulist Press, 1987, $12.95. Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian. By Grace Jantzen. Pp.x, 230. London SPCK, 1987, £8.95. Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation (World Spirituality, Vol.17). Edited by Jill Raitt in collaboration with Bernard McGinn and John Meyendorff, Pp.xxiii, 479, London, SCM Press, 1989, £19.50. Erasmus and the Jews. By Shimon Markish, translated by Anthony Olcott. Pp.viii, 203, Chicago University Press, 1986, £21.25. Hugo Grotius Meletius, sive De iis quae inter Christianos conveniunt epistola. (Studies in the History of Christian Thought Vol.XL). Critical edition with translation, commentary and introduction by G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes. Pp.xix, 191, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1988, 85 guilders. Law, Resistance and the State: The Opposition to Roman Law in Reformation Germany. By Gerald Strauss. Pp.xi, 302. Princeton University Press, 1986, £24.90. Thesaurus Lutheri: Auf der Suche nach neuen Paradigmen der Luther-Forschung. Edited by Tuomo Mannermaa, Anja Ghiselli and Simo Peura. Pp.327, Helsinki, Luther-Agricola-Gesellschaft, 1987, no price given.