Daniel Taylor’s novel Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees comes out today from Slant, the excellent literary imprint of Wipf & Stock presided over by Greg Wolfe. It is the third novel in a series, but you don’t have to have read the first two in order to enjoy and profit from this one.

Taylor knows a bit about the business of Bible translation, having served for many years as a consultant on the New Living Translation, working hand-in-hand with biblical scholars. (In his day job, after earning his PhD at Emory University, he taught English for decades at Bethel College, which became Bethel University, in St. Paul, Minnesota.)

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