The Peoples' Companion to the Bible
"The Peoples' Companion to the Bible is an excellent guide to studying the Bible with different eyes and from different cultural locations. No one should undertake the journey into the Bible without this expert guide. A must for students, faculty, and general readers." --Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Professor, Harvard Divinity School"Building on the work of scholars in the acclaimed Peoples' Bible, this vital new textbook infuses postmodern methods with an ethical imperative of mutual understanding and respect. Student readers analyze their own way of seeing in terms of culture, class, gender, racial identity, family structure, and more, en route to learning others' ways of seeing. They are thus empowered to engage the interpretations offered by scholars in essays on contextualized interpretation and the historical-critical method as these are applied to the biblical writings. The Peoples' Companion will help prepare students for life in a pluralistic and diverse world and will challenge teachers to think differently about their own pedagogical aims in the biblical studies classroom. --Julia Lambert Fogg, Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, and Chair of the Religion Department California Lutheran University