The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture

The interplay between scriptural texts and their interpretation on the one side and their cultural and intellectual context and reception on the other is a factor that has always been there but in recent years has received increased attention. This is shown well by this new addition to the well‐established series of Blackwell Companions. It aims “to provide a series of assessments of the ways in which the various practices of culture – aesthetic, political, religious – inform and are informed by scripture”. The central scripture here is the Bible, although several of the contributors cross‐analyse it with others (like...