Harrington Reviews Jervis

This week's NT related Book Review in America: The National Catholic Weekly is the following:

At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message
By L. Ann Jervis
Reviewed by Daniel J. Harrington

Harrington Reviews Fitzmyer

In America: The National Catholic Weekly, Daniel Harrington has a review of Joseph Fitzmyer's new book:

The One Who Is to Come
By Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J.
Eerdmans. 224p $18 (paperback)

The words “messiah” and “messianism” are often used loosely not only in popular culture but also in religious discourse, even in biblical scholarship. This magisterial study of these terms in the Bible and related ancient sources by a premier biblical scholar of our time brings order and clarity into the understanding and use of what are obviously important words for both Christians and Jews . . .