The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore? turns its attention to the book that forms one of the key foundation stones laying at the base of the world's cultures. It reviews the nature of its contents and the content of its claims to truth.
The author, Jabulani Midzi, brings to the book's audacious task a keen eye focused and a listening ear attuned to the messages contained in the pages of the Bible. As he notes, the Bible contains law, history, poetry, prophecy, gospels and epistles. By surveying the nature of these various types of writing and summarising the Bible's claims...