Emma England is Guest Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her publications include work in children’s Bibles and comics. William John Lyons is Lecturer in New Testament in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

• IntroductionExplorations in the Reception of the BibleEmma England and John LyonsReception History, Historical-Criticism, and Biblical StudiesCh. 1. Biblical Studies on Holiday? A Personal View of Reception History.Susan Gillingham, University of Oxford, UKCh. 2 What is Reception History, and What Happens to You if You Do It?James E. Harding, University of Otago, New ZealandCh. 3 The End of Reception History, a Grand Narrative for Biblical Studies and the Neoliberal Bible.James G. Crossley, University of Sheffield, UKCh. 4 Visitors, Gatekeepers and Receptionists: Reflections on the Shape of Biblical Studies and the Role of Reception History.Jonathan Morgan, University of Chester, UKConceptualising Reception HistoryCh. 5 The Head of John and its Reception or How to Conceptualize “Reception History".Caroline Vander Stichele, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCh. 6 What Can a Text Do? Reception History as an Ethology of the Biblical Text.Brennan Breed, Columbia Theological Seminary, USACh. 7 The End of Biblical Interpretation—the Beginning of Reception History? Reading the Bible in the Spaces of LiteratureSamuel Tongue, University of Glasgow, UKCh. 8 Reception History of the Bible: Prospects of a New Frontier in African Biblical Studies.Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, ZEGU, ZimbabweImplications, Difficulties and SolutionsCh. 9 Unlikely Bedfellows: Lenin, Calvin and Nick Cave.Roland Boer, University of Newcastle, AustraliaCh. 10 Tracing Patmos Through the Centuries.Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, USACh. 11 Digital Humanities and Reception History; or the Joys and Horrors of Databases.Emma England, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ch. 12 Layers of Reception of Jephthah’s Daughter (Judges 11) Among the AmaNazaretha: From the Early 1900s to Today.Gerald West, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaBible, Reception and Popular MusicCh. 13 The story of Leonard Cohen’s Who By Fire, a Prayer in the Cairo Genizah, Babylonian Astrology and Related Rabbinical Texts.Helen R. Jacobus, University College London, UKCh. 14 Time to Cut Him Down to Size?” A Critical Examination of Depeche Mode’s Alternative “John of Patmos”.William John Lyons, University of Bristol, UKCh. 15 “God,” “God Part II,” and “God Part III”: Exploring the Anxiety of Influence in John Lennon, U2, and Larry Norman.Michael J. Gilmour, Providence University, CanadaCh. 16 High, Low and In Between: Reception History and the Sociology of Religion and Popular Music.Ibrahim Abraham, University of Helsinki. FinlandIndex

A necessary and astutely judged volume that addresses comprehensively many of the issues, appraisals, and criticisms that have arisen and been put to this emerging field in biblical studies ... England and Lyons are to be commended for drawing together a great spectrum of scholars to advance convincingly the case for biblical reception history in the academy.