“This volume raises some of the key questions facing not only Old Testament Studies but biblical studies generally at the present time as the contexts for interpretation are becoming many and varied. The volume seeks to hold them in dialogue while making space for new voices to be heard and for these to be available to the world of biblical scholarship generally. I hope that what has been begun here will continue in ways that will enable many more voices to be heard and to be brought into the dialogue.”
— Elaine Wainwright, Richard Maclaurin Goodfellow Professor in Theology and Head of School, School of Theology, University of Auckland
“This collection of essays demonstrates and reflects on two important dimensions of globalisation. First, biblical scholarship is global in the sense that there is now a widely distributed array of communities who read and reflect on the Bible. Biblical studies is no longer a western project. Second, and in some tension with the first, biblical scholarship is global in the sense that across its contextual diversity there are marked similarities, deriving largely from the enduring impact of the 'western' biblical studies heritage, perpetuated in part by the 'canonical' scholarly books that are found in our libraries. But there is also a third dimension of the global that this collection celebrates, namely the determination of biblical scholars from every part of the globe to engage with each other. And it is this third form that will determine the shape of our discipline, wherever we are located.”
— Gerald West, Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Hermeneutics, School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal