The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts

There always seems a tension between generalism and specialism when it comes to knowledge and how it is offered in reference works. In one way, there is nothing quite like having a source that brings all (or at least many) of the major strands together in one place. In another, aiming to be comprehensive is never going to satisfy the specialists, who will want more of this and less of that. The genus “companions” often fall into this category, however good they happen to be: and as a result, the work under review here is likely to appeal to two...