A number of the essays in this volume were originally published as a part of a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review entitled "The Bible and Its Traditions." Added to these articles are new contributions by F. I. Andersen ("On Reading Genesis 1-3"), David Blamires ("The Use of the Bible in The Roman Quarry of David Jones"), Tikva Frymer-Kensky ("Biblical Cosmology"), and Baruch Levine ("The Language of Holiness: Perceptions of the Sacred in the Hebrew Bible").
