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My new book is a criticism of sceptical and critical scholarship, and I’ve published it with Amazon.
Posted by simon peter sutherland in Bible Manuscripts, Bible translation, Biblical Scholarship, My books on May 20, 2026

Over the course of many years, over 15 to be exact, I have been sporadically writing and rewriting a book called “The Divine Saviour in the Dark Light of Modern Scholarship”. It began in 2008 as a partial fulfilment thesis while I was studying theology at a Bible college.
Years went by and the work was shelved.
At that time I was attending lectures at the Manchester Theological Society in Manchester Cathedral and I was busy recording an album and making documentaries on St Paul and also the English and Welsh reformation. So I wrote and rewrote the book as I went along. Eventually I revised it, and shelved it and then worked some more on its pages. Eventually I arrived at a happy conclusion where I had completed my documentary series on St Paul, the Greek Islands and Cyprus, and I decided it was time to finish what I started.
The book is essentially a very topical work that centralises upon the theme of Biblical criticism and how its affects can damage the reputation of the Bible to the general public. It all began back in the 1990’s when I watched documentaries produced by the British media which often maligned the historicity of the Bible and when I began to do street evangelism, I heard the same at arguments used in these films to refute the claims I made.
So I decided I’d had enough so I wrote a book about it and that journey continued. I didn’t expect it to take as long as it did for me to complete it and make it publishable.
After a reshuffle with the title, and repetitive revisions, I’ve published the book with Amazon and at the moment its only available in hard copies. I’ve avoided sensationalism and fancy covers and I’m wanting to reach serious people who are serious about reading and any quest they may have to know if the Bible is true or false.
I certainly believe the Bible is absolutely true and historically accurate and for that reason I’ve published my book under the title of “The Divine Saviour In The Dark Light Of Modern Critical and Sceptical Scholarship“.