This book gave me a fresh and enlightening perspective on the Biblical text. Ronald Schleifer is one of my instructors at the University of Oklahoma, and he has impressed me with his unique insight into literary texts and their connections to culture. In "The Postmodern Bible Reader", he and his colleagues have chosen essays that look at the Bible in just this way, connecting the literature with the culture.

Many of the essays are very complicated and at times difficult to read, but the effort is worthwhile and fruitful as you begin to see the Bible in a new light and experience it from the insight of others. I found each essay to be full of ideas and concepts that gave new meaning to an historical text.

I would recommend "The Postmodern Bible Reader" to anyone looking for new insight into a traditional text, to those students of the Bible who are anxious to delve into its intricacies and complex messages, and to those literary minds who are eager to learn more about the culture of our times through the literary works that permeate it.