Book Reviews: John Barton, HOW THE BIBLE CAME TO BE. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 100. Paper, $10.00

Abstract

The Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence-Rome comes in for a full treatment, including the thoroughgoing mutual misunderstandings of Church doctrines as held by East and West. In the final signing there were many mental reservations on both sides. The intransigence of the Latin theologians generally and of Mark Eugenicus, Metropolitan of Ephesus, in particular, was a formula for failure. The condition of the Jews of Spain, both the rabbis who became Catholics out of conviction and the many more Jews who accepted baptism for protection after a persecution that began in Seville in 1391 (the anuzim