Review Kathleen Adamson, November 26, 2021: Nowadays, we associate close readings and adherence to scriptural traditions with fundamentalism, regardless of the religion. Christianity in North America has become defined by Biblical literalists and fundamentalists, who are often more identifiable by their ring wing politics than their spiritual tradition. In The Rebel Christ, Coren is not the first to point out the (to a modern eye) absurd rules proscribed in the Bible that even fundamentalists ignore, but the argument has a different sense when marshalled by someone other than a Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens-style cynic. Indeed, he points out that, in addition to the trivial regulations on menstruating women and blended fabrics, there are other, more central Biblical injunctions ignored by conservative fundamentalists.