Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Noel Weeks, The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible David G. Horrell, Asceticism and the New Testament William Klassen, Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation Rick Strelan, The Religion of Paul the Apostle Ruth E. Leader, The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran Anthony Grafton, Investigations into Magic Conal Condren, The English Sermon Revised: Religion, Literature and History, 1600–1750 Mary Chan, Catholicism and Anti‐Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts Tim Cooper, Providence in Early Modern England Paul Turnbull, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737–1764 Paul Turnbull, Barbarism and Religion. Vol. 2, Narratives of Civil Government Martyn Lyons, Church and Society in Eighteenth‐Century France. Vol. 1, The Clerical Establishment and its Social Ramifications Martyn Lyons, Church and Society in Eighteenth‐Century France. Vol. 2, The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion John Gascoigne, The Modern Papacy Since 1789 Mark Smith, Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism Mark Smith, The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England, c. 1800–1870 D. W. Bebbington, Hugh Price Hughes: Founder of a New Methodism, Conscience of a New Nonconformity Mark Smith, Anglican Ritualism in Victorian Britain William W. Emilsen, In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India Jim Masselos, Ashes of Immortality: Widow‐Burning in India Giselle M. Byrnes, The Island Broken in Two Halves: Land and Renewal Movements Among the Maori of New Zealand