Description: "This volume draws together ten essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the varying ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts"--
Brief description: Ken Brown is Lecturer at Whitworth University, USA.
Review Quotes: "This stimulating volume of essays draws attention to the fact that, in some sense, all acts of reading are reading other people's texts and that scholars should be attentive to the range of actual and potential meanings these readings produce. The collection genuinely points to new directions in the conversations around interpretation and identity creation of ancient texts. As such, it makes a valuable contribution to reception history and does precisely what an edited collection of this sort ought to do." --Review of Biblical Literature