R. S. Sugirtharajah is Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics, University of Birmingham. Recent publications include: Postcolonial Reconfigurations: An alternative way of reading the Bible and doing Theology, SCM Press, London, 2003.

• Profile: Frances Young; The Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury; 'These Then Let Us Emulate' The Early Church Illuminate Two Gospel Impairment Encounters Simon Horne; Wilderness woman: the taming of Miriam. Christine Trevett; Women in the Wilderness - Rereading Revelation 12 Diane Treacy-Cole; The Mountain and the Desert David Parker; Finding Identity in the Wilderness Lynne Wall; The Wilderness Quotation in Mark 1:2-3 Steve Moyise; Reading Jesus in the Wilderness Judith Lieu; The Poor Wise Man and the Cacophony of Voices Paul M. Joyce; Mimesis, typology and the institution narrative: some observations on Traditio apostolica 4 and its afterlife Alistair Stewart-Sykes; 'Incense in Our Land': Julian Saba and Early Syrian Christianity Susan Ashbrook Harvey; Wilderness, Revelation and the New Jerusalem in Radical Christian Writings Christopher Rowland; From Evil Thoughts to Deadly Sins: Evagrius of Pontus's Psychology of Sin Angela Tilby; Wilderness Wisdom for the Twenty-first Century: Arthur, L'Arche and the Culmination of Christian History David F. Ford; From wilderness towards home Jean Vanier; Wilderness Wanderers and Their Theological Significance in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Emily Hunt; Jesus in the Qur'an, The Historical Jesus and The Myth of God Incarnate Neal Robinson.

"It is a book that is worthy of the person it honours. It is also one that should sit on the shelves of every minister who wants to see how the academe can shape his or her ministry, and on those of an academic who needs reminding that the wilderness is a place worth ecxploring, worth learning from." ANVIL vol.24 no.4 2007