Preventing the Naomi Wolf Problem

Why Do Authors Get Their Subjects Ruinously Wrong? What Can We Do About Bogus Books?

Despite my disinterest in her work, author Naomi Wolf is popular enough that I find her impossible to avoid from time to time. Recently, she’s been discussing her study of the New Testament. So much of it, she says, “has been mistranslated, or, shall I say, creatively translated. . . .” But has it? Or is Wolf simply out of her depth? She’s not conversan…