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A. Draper Jonathan (ed.), The Eye of the Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical InspirationPietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 2003, pp. xii+415. ISBN 1-875053-39-5 (pbk). RRP $24.00 or SAR 120.00. [A paperback version of the hardback edition published in 2003 by T & T Clark International, London, as volume 386 of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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1. Guy, Jeff, The Heretic: A Study of the Life of John William Colenso 1814–1883 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1983).Google Scholar

2. Names without title of article together with page number, with the latter sometimes alone, refer to articles and pages within the monograph being reviewed.Google Scholar

4. All seven volumes are referred to as Pentateuch in this review.Google Scholar

5. See Pearson, Clive, Davidson, Allan and Lineham, Peter, Scholarship and Fierce Sincerity: Henry D.A. Major. The Face of Anglican Modernism (Auckland: Polygraphia, 2006), p. 162.Google Scholar

6. For example, the Diocese of British Columbia, the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, and David Brewer of Canada.Google Scholar

7. The Archbishops of the Congo, Rwanda, Central Africa, Kenya and South East Asia.Google Scholar

9. The Heretic, pp. x, 162, 353.Google Scholar

10. Compare Rogerson’s chapter on Colenso in his Old Testament Criticism in the Nineteenth Century: England and Germany (London: SPCK, 1984; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985), p. 220, where he argues that Colenso’s work on the Hexateuch ‘was one of the most original British contributions to biblical criticism in the nineteenth century’.Google Scholar

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13. According to a personal communication received in June 2006 from the Provincial Executive Administrator of the CPSA, ‘the Bishops are still to consider the matter’.Google Scholar

14. I note that Yale University Library, Divinity Library Special Collections should be added: http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/divinity.129.con.htmlGoogle Scholar

15. Several typographical errors occur: ones which matter include p. vii, for ‘Francis’ read ‘Frances’; p. 1, line 15 of text, for ‘1988’ read ‘1983’; p. 2, 6 lines from bottom, the date of 1997 is not in the bibliography; p. 110 line 26, for ‘1959’ read ‘1859’; p. 170 line 3, for ‘1996’ read ‘1966’ as in the bibliography; p. 177, line 12, for ‘1999’ read ‘1990’; p. 308, line 5 from bottom and p. 325, line 11 for ‘Hinchliffe’ read ‘Hinchliff’; p. 322, lines 20–21 for ‘Cape Town’ read ‘Canterbury’; p. 326, footnote 1, line 1, for ‘1858’ read ‘1958’; p. 406, the second and third entries under Rogerson are confusing (Rogerson is not the editor, but the author, and the SPCK edition is 1984—there is a Fortress Press edition of 1985).Google Scholar