PositiveFinancial Times (UK)He writes engagingly, in short, direct sentences and discrete paragraphs, which are rendered clearly into English by Tim Parks. And he is faithful to his source material, often supplementing it with details from the Mishnah, the post-biblical Jewish tradition, and from his own pen ... These are not straightforward retellings, however. Calasso is not simply translating the Old Testament afresh ... Nor is he offering a commentary, although he does draw on some (not very recent) biblical scholarship. Rather, he is connecting ... Calasso links the tales with reflections on sacrifice, election, evil, separation and redemption—losing, enlightening and perfecting himself in the process.
Neil MacGregor
RaveFinancial Times\"The book is more than coffee table aesthetics or even \'mere anthropology\', and has a sharp, contemporary edge ... The triumph of Living with the Gods is that it manages to recognise but avoid both of these extremes, marrying the aesthetic and political dimensions of religion without reducing it to either ... MacGregor reminds us that the momentous political questions of our age are, in fact, little different from those of earlier ones.\
