The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion Available to Purchase

Each age and every specialist group believes itself entitled and able to re-interpret old texts. Nowhere more than with the Bible. Editing and compiling, creating a canon of “true” texts and false, adapting and translating, providing interpretative or exegetical material, staying neutral or taking on the stance of advocacy or attacking scriptural texts as unreliable or even spurious – all these can be found in abundance in the history of biblical interpretation and criticism. The Hebrew Bible is a classic gathering place for all and any of these approaches.

It is for these reasons then that clear and modern and...