Description: This book provides a snapshot and assessment of the state of comparison in Biblical Studies and has significant implications for the future of the field. These ten studies illustrate just how expansive and sound comparative studies can be in both method and materials compared.
Brief description: Drew S. Holland is assistant professor and Program Coordinator of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Tennessee Southern.
Review Quotes:
"Reading this volume is entering a space in which dialogue and reflection across subfields happens. The reader gets an expanded toolbox full of methods, a jewel box full of ideas, and an angel on the right shoulder giving hints for ethical conversing with each other and representing the other in our writing. This sort of work will strengthen the survival chances of the Humanities!" --Kristin De Troyer, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in Austria
"This thought-provoking collection of essays shifts our study of the biblical texts into new pathways, where we can gain new insights from the adventurous work of interdisciplinary comparisons." --Gale A. Yee, Episcopal Divinity School "I'm so delighted to see this volume appear! It makes some of the latest and most creative comparative work being done with the Bible available to a wide audience, and is framed with expert orientation to the state of the conversations." --Christopher B. Hays, Fuller Theological Seminary