THE LAST OF THE JUST (374 pp.)—André Schwarz-Bart—Atheneum ($4.95). This first novel, a quasi-epic panorama of Jewish suffering from medieval pogroms to Nazi crematories, is a publishing phenomenon in ...

The Book of Lamentations, attributed to the prophet Jeremiah in the Vulgate and closely connected with his prophetic writing, is a little-known and somewhat obscure Old Testament text. It has as its ...

When the Sinaitic Covenant was renewed to the hosts of Israel, poised in the plains of Moab for the conquest of Canaan, the ancient promises of blessing were repeated; but so too were the curses that ...

“The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation” by David R. Slavitt (Johns Hopkins University Press. $15.95). David R. Slavitt’s new translation of Eicha (Lamentations) demonstrates his ...

Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England. By Roger Scruton. Atlantic; 199 pages; £20. To be published in America in February; $32.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk TO ENGLISHMEN of ...