<p>“The breadth and depth of David Lyle Jeffrey’s work and its consistent engagement with scripture recall that of Erich Auerbach. These essays not only acknowledge and clarify Jeffrey’s achievement but also extend it in their attention to literary, philosophical, and religious works of the West. Given Jeffrey’s trailblazing work, it is especially fitting that the final essays turn to Africa and China. In this way, this excellent volume illumines both past and future. Highly relevant, warmly recommended." —Paul J. Contino, Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Humanities, Pepperdine University</p>

<p>"David Lyle Jeffrey is a scholar of extraordinary depth and extraordinary breadth. The essays gathered in this collection in his honor do, indeed, pay tribute to his lasting contributions to disparate fields as well as provide further scholarship in areas of significance to him." —Alan Jacobs, Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program, Baylor University</p>

<p>"As D. H. Williams and Phillip J. Donnelly note in the introduction, David Jeffrey is a brilliant polymath with extraordinary erudition. The impressiveness of his scholarly work is outstripped only by his personal qualities as a beloved teacher and mentor to many. This festschrift volume is an appealingly wide-ranging interdisciplinary tribute to David Jeffrey on the topic that integrates his remarkable career: the interpretive reception and literary transformations of biblical texts and tropes in the Western Christian cultural imagination. I heartily recommend this superb book to anyone interested in the interrelations between the Bible, theology, ethics, and literature." —Travis Kroeker, McMaster University</p>