What is secular biblical criticism?

Secularism and Biblical Studies presents a selection of essays that examine the nature of secular biblical studies and its hermeneutical principles. The essays outline and analyse debates within biblical studies over the issue of secularism and explore the interplay of atheism, agnosticism and faith in the interpretation of the Bible. The book argues for a hermeneutics of suspicion and a wider engagement with cultural, literary and anthropological disciplines.

Examining biblical hermeneutics from a range of perspectives — from Europe, Israel and the USA — Secularism and Biblical Studies offers a provocative and challenging approach that will be of interest to all students and scholars of the Bible.