Martin (biblical Hebrew and ancient Near East studies, U. of Washington-Seattle) warns against practices of textual criticism that operate predominantly from a reductionist view of text, and offers theoretical and practical approaches that can account for the multivalent realities of textual origins, which are generally overlooked in the text criticism enterprise. His topics include theories and methods of orality, Christian and Jewish interpretation history of Song 1:2, textual categories of decalogue manuscripts, and audiences and agendas. Annotation 2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
