This book moves in some very important directions and scores many original points in the current debate over the history of biblical interpretation and its implications for contemporary theological use of Scripture. Its implications cross all the disciplines of biblical and theological study" Gerald Sheppard, Emmanuel College, University of Toronte

"Frances Young's book offers entirely new insights into the purpose and meaning of Scripture.... Should be essential reading in any booklists concerned with the creative tension in the academic and pastoral use of the Bible Theological Boole Review (Great Britain)

"This is a magnificent book, highly creative, written from within a perspective of faith and with total scholarly integrity... Frances Young has given us a book so rich and stimulating that any brief summary of it hardly begins to do justice to her alert and positive treatment of these complex issues. It deserves to be widely read and pondered." Worship and Preaching