What can we teach, what should we teach about the Bible in religious edu- cation courses in schools? Questions concerning methods and the appro- priate presentation of biblical material for different age groups have been widely discussed by religious education specialists in recent years. But behind such questions there often lie hidden assumptions about what the Bible is and how it may function today. This book, the text of lectures first delivered to the St Andrews Religious Education Conference, seeks to raise and examine questions about such assumptions and to suggest guidelines for ways in which the Bible may be responsibly handled in religious education. The author is professor of Old Testa ment Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow.