All Life Belongs to God

Erkki Koskenniemi, Lutheran pastor and scholar (Adjunct Professor at three Finnish Universities; New Testament), has published a booklet All Life Belongs to God (Wipf &Stock, Eugene, OR). The booklet (74 pages) presents how Greek and Romans used to expose their infants and tells why Jews and Christians prohibited it. 

He says, "In my opinion, it means a contribution to modern pro-life debate, offering a new point of view on the dignity of human life, born and unborn. The moderate book is written for to ordinary Christians, e.g. for physicians, nurses and teachers, and for everyone dealing with Christian ethics. A larger book (The Exposure of Infants among Jews and Christians in Antiquity: The Social World of Biblical Antiquity, Second Series, 4 (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009) was written for scholars."

The booklet is priced so that it can easily be used in Bible study circles. Visit the publisher's Internet page: Wiph & Stock to purchase.