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Reading with a Passion: Rhetoric, Autobiography, and the American West in the Gospel of John

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I think that every biblical scholar should read this book, and every scholar of religion should read it, because I know of no better place that one can EXPERIENCE the problematics and possibilities of reading texts--either ancient or modern--and experience the issues of interpretation. Staley's book is one that INVITES rereading. And the rereading experience will bring a new reading experience simply because of how the book is designed. I can honestly say that this book comes as close to the experience of reading hypertext in the computer world as I ever expect one can come in printed form. Extraordinary both in terms of its unusual and stimulating content, and in its high quality and insightfulness. Buy it; read it--many times. I have; I will. Denny Clark, Albertson College, ID

"Staley's book compels us to reconsider the entire goal and genre of bibilcal criticism. Grounded in sophisticated and capacious theoretical analysis, intimate knowledge of the critical issues pertaining to the Fourth Gospel, and perceptive, remarkably self-revealing autobiographical reflection, Staley's interpretive wager sparkles with the narrative pace, philospohical depth and unsettling power of good literature. If this is 'reading with a passion,' let us have more of it." From a forthcoming review in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, by Douglas Burton-Christie